Quotes About Conflict

The Jews played a major part in perpetuating the hostility between the Aws and the Khazraj in order to keep them preoccupied with it. This earned the Jews the title 'Foxes', as they were called by the Arabs.

Making peace is harder than making war.

The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, and even bird versus worm…. The State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

My adversaries… applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.

My generals should be like bull terriers on chains, and they should want war, war, war ... But what happens now? I want to go ahead with my aggressive politics and the generals try to stop me. That's a false situation.

Particularly in the case of this war, one must never forget that if we lose it, we lose everything.

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Mientras el trato asocial e indigno dado al hombre provoque resistencias, y mientras no se hayan instituido autoridades judiciales encargadas de reparar los daños, siempre él más fuerte vencerá en la lucha. Por

y fue la mano de la Diosa Justicia y de las leyes compensatorias la que hizo que el adversario principal del germanismo austríaco, el Archiduque Francisco Fernando, cayera bajo el mismo plomo que él ayudó a fundir.

So long as the paternal plan to make a State functionary contradicted my own inclinations only in the abstract, the conflict was easy to bear.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world.

in contrast to Europe, where between 1894 and 1914 five heads of state, three prime ministers, and one president were assassinated.

In our family, being right trumped being truthful. There was no room for uncertainty, so you never let down your guard.

You touched me in places so deep I wanted to ignore you.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

A dream of tenderness wrestles with all I know of history

The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else.