Quotes About Conflict

Italian neorealism contrasts with previous forms of film realism in its stripping away of all expressionism and in particular in the total absence of the effects of montage. As in the films of Welles and in spite of conflicts of style, neorealism tends to give back to the cinema a sense of the ambiguity of reality.

Les blessures du plus profond amour suffisent à faire une assez belle haine - La Condition Humaine

Tragedy, in our times, is politics.

Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Herkeste geçici gerilemeler olur, hiç kimse geçmi?in, bilinçd???n?n ve çat??malar?n nihai bir biçimde birer aksesuar olarak bir kenara b?rak?ld??? bir ilerleme çizgisi izlemez. Hay?r, böyle bir ?ey yoktur, onlarla birlikte ya?ar?z ama ba?ka türlü ya?ar?z.

The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), in which only the few can win and the many must lose. And so it has been for millennia, thanks to the world system's unequal structure and uneven process, which Wallerstein helps us identify.

The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life

Then she turned on him in a hundred small ways, each of them minor and not unusual when one human being lived with another, but this was like saying that a typhoon was nothing more than single drops of rain pushed by a little wind.

We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I.

In the past Terra had been racked by wars of religion, one fanatically held opinion opposed to another. There was no righteousness in such struggles, only fatal ends. The Reds had no right to this new knowledge—but neither did they. It must be locked against the meddling of fools and zealots.

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

Gli ho chiesto come andava con Laurie; lui ha detto "Ci facciamo del male in ogni modo possibile, e non appena uno dei due accenna ad andarsene l'altro gli corre dietro come un povero masochista, non c'è verso che la cosa si risolva.

We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.

I bet she thought she was getting into a fight with a vanilla wafer on roller skates but little did she know she was getting into a fight with a spider sandwich.

The oil being taken out of the ground and the machinery that does it and the infrastructure which supports it – this is violent',

Gandhi's strategy for national liberation never – this is true – condoned violence against the British, but it did include violence with them.