Quotes About Conflict

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Que todo tiene su orden, su razón y su porqué. Que no es Pachacamac ni es Contiki Viracocha Pachayachachig, sino son los mismos hombres los que alteran todo y viven en continua lucha con la pacha mama.

Aan de andere kant van de tafel sloeg de papegaai krijsend met zijn vleugels en slingerde een stroom vloekwoorden naar de kat.

At the moment my advice is to hide behind Cadvan if any trouble occurs, and don't draw the sword at all. You're just a liability.

The Nazis have given up

El hombre que cabalga sobre los cuernos de un dilema termina con el culo pinchado.

children only begin to understand differences in desires when they are about eighteen months old...Toddlers are systematically testing the dimensions on which their desires and the desires of others may be in conflict... The terrible twos reflects a genuine clash between children's need to understand other people and their need to live happily with them.

Brian knows the affair is wrong. He's known from the moment Wendy first undressed in his office. But with her hot, wet tongue in his ear, and her taut, pink nipples straining against his starched white shirt, and with Mick Jagger's strident voice squawking about satisfaction on the tiny transistor radio, Brian's body refuses to obey. Instead of shoving Wendy out the door, he shoves her onto the unmade bed.

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

The Burgundian chronicler Philippe de Commines thought the English a choleric, earthy, and volatile people, who nevertheless made good, brave soldiers. In fact he regarded their warlike inclinations as one of the chief causes of the Wars of the Roses. If they could not fight the French, he believed, they fought each other.

His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber

Monsieur le Gouverneur-Général, you reason in the French of France, but we reason in the French of Algeria." It was not at all the same language, as was to become tragically plain later, and in order to understand events from 1954 onwards it is necessary to accept the existence of three totally distinct peoples — the French of France, the French of Algeria, and the Muslims of Algeria.

Back in another untroubled summer, that of 1870, the British foreign secretary Lord Granville, gazing up from Whitehall, could detect "not a cloud in the sky." Yet a month later, Europe would be torn asunder by the Franco-Prussian War, marking the end of a century of Pax Britannica and all its optimistic assumptions.

Christ, woman, were you ever going to say anything?" He grabbed her by the wrist and tugged her down the hall to the single bathroom. "Get out of that shirt.

Individuality, therefore, harbours its own enemy at home.'2

The past was characterized not by ignorance but by false opinions. Men always had opinions about everything, but those opinions were without ground and indemonstrable. Yet they governed the nations of men and were authoritative. Thus the problem of Enlightenment is not merely discovery of the truth but the conflict between the truth and the beliefs of men.

more than 50 per cent of Amstetten's menfolk who had marched off to fight for Hitler did not make it back home.

Mientras que una gota de sangre humana se derrame en la tierra por la mano de los hombres, el verdadero reino de Dios aún no habrá llegado, reino de paz y de amor que debe para siempre jamás desterrar de vuestro globo la animosidad, la discordia y la guerra.

Two of the band members in Wings walked out in the same week for different reasons, and he never asked why," Henry mused. "You can take from that what you want.

Although I condemn any violence, if two people are fighting, I'm probably gonna be on one side or the other, even though I'm against violence.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

have got Lee just where I want him; he must fight me on my own ground." So he waited to see what would happen—which was usually a fatal thing to do in the vicinity of Robert E. Lee.