Quotes About Conflict

As long as human nature is what it is, I'm afraid there will always be another war

Don't throw my words back in my face, you little baggage.

Idly he toyed with the notion of ripping Leybrook's head off his shoulders. It would be a very pleasant, extremely satisfying project, but Virginia would probably not approve.

Clearly no one knew the socially correct way to deal with a brawl in a ballroom that had been started by a lady.

In my view the imposing tower of misery which today rests on the heart of India has its sole foundation in the absence of education. Caste divisions, religious conflicts, aversion to work, precarious economic conditions – all centre on this single factor.

one must go through war to reach peace.4

How can you go on living when you're now being lived in? When you've been invaded?

These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.

as we all know from experience elections actually divide more than unite.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Pitam se nemamo li svi mi u sebi svog neprijatelja i kako se protiv njega boriti?Za mene je borba protiv njega ?in pisanja,trenutak kad se osje?am dovoljno snažnom.Izme?u mene i njega tad se odvija dijalog i nije slu?ajnost što u mojim knjigama ima mnogo dijaloga.Rijetko osje?am mir.

It is too sad . I must speak to him - The do you really ? - Sure . How can you expect things to get better , if we do not speak? - Earlier , you talked to Mr. Omochi . Do you feel that things have thus been arranged? - What is certain is that if we do not talk , there is no chance to solve the problem. - What seems more certain is that if we talk, there is serious risk of aggravating the situation.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Standing in front of the girl's house, Mama yelled up at the windows, "Katie Adams, you whore, give me my husband back!" When Miss Adams' neighbours complained about all the noise Mama was making, my father came down to quiet her. He kissed her until she cried, but didn't come home.

It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military, or based on oil-is considered no more than legitimate vengeance. And there can be no doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades, deeply felt by the Arabs, even today, as an act of rape

You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot.

N'est-ce pas la vertu première du nationalisme que de trouver un coupable plutôt qu'une solution ?