Quotes About Conflict

There is no such thing as a humane war.

Men on the surface of a planet are as helpless against men in spaceships as a man would be trying to conduct a rock-throwing fight from the bottom of a well. The man at the top of the well has gravity working for him.

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. Man was his own grimmest joke on himself. The very bedrock of humor was— "Man is the animal who laughs," Jubal answered.

The long knives made short work.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.

What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I've studied—from most human beings, really—is that the people who face the wall and the people who face away from it have never fought a war over it. They're never going to agree…but they feel no need to. Buddha himself is supposed to have said, "People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. Man was his own grimmest joke on himself. The very bedrock of humor was— "Man is the animal who laughs," Jubal answered. Mike considered this. "Then

The shrewdest of the great generals in China's history once said that perfection in war lay in so sapping the opponent's will that he surrenders without fighting.

Buras? da tüm iyi ailelerde olduÄŸu gibi anarÅŸi ve tiranl???n bir kar???m?d?r, demokrasiye yer yoktur.

he tripped over her and went down. And I stomped him. With my bare feet I stomped him, landing on that lobster-horror head with both feet. His head crunched. It felt awful. It was like jumping on a strawberry box. It splintered and crunched and went to pieces. I cringed at the feel, even though I was in an agony to fight, to kill. I trampled worms and hopped away, feeling sick.

Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence

Boss, you're nitpicking to avoid admitting that it was your fault, not mine.

On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Serbia, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated. He was Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an otherwise useless piece of royalty, and to this day I have never been able to understand why this event could cause Germany to invade Belgium a month later. I

Just as this free-lance socialist was gathering up their day's receipts, Joe lets him have it, with a cleaver. Curtain. The only notable thing about it was that Joe acted so quickly and correctly in the crunch, for I feel sure that the only fighting that he had ever tried was that which I forced on him in the 'Libby.

When are the territorial states going to learn that they cannot possibly win against corporate states?

Sir, every nation is capable of atrocities, including our own.

Zaslechl jsem, že bývaly bojové jednotky, s nimiž jejich kaplan nebojoval, ale nedokázal jsem si pÃ…â"¢edstavit, jak by to mohlo fungovat. Myslím tím, jak m?že kaplan žehnat n??emu, co nechce sám dÄ›lat?

Havia um campo em que o homem era insuperável; ele demonstrava engenhosidade ilimitada no desenvolvimento de formas maiores e mais eficientes de matar, escravizar, abusar e se tornar um incômodo insuportável de todas as formas possíveis de si mesmo para si mesmo.

The tendency to see one's shadow "out there" in one's neighbor or in another race or culture is the most dangerous aspect of the modern psyche. It has created two devastating wars in this century and threatens the destruction of all the fine achievements of our modern world. We all decry war but collectively we move toward it. It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow to which every one of us has contributed.

If it has an impact, it means there is a war inside me. You set it off, but what you set off is my business. Anything that can burn in a person should burn. Only the things that are fireproof are worth keeping. If you can hurt my feelings, they are better off hurt, because it's an error in me.

The quickest way I know to break a person is to give him or her two sets of contradicting values—which is exactly what we do, in modern culture, with our Sunday and Monday moralities. We are taught by Christianity to follow a set of values that are almost entirely disregarded in everyday business life. How is a person to cope?

But when Aphrodite is confronting her daughter-in-law she is jealous, competitive and determined to set out hurdles for Psyche at every turn.

If i can stay with my conflicting impulses long enough, the two opposing forces will teach each other something and produce an insight that serves them both. This is not a compromise but a depth of understanding that puts my life in perspective and allows me to know with certainty what I should do. That certainty is one of the most precious qualities known to human kind.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.