Quotes About Conflict

It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.

The truth is that the spirit of conflict and conquest is at the origin and in the centre of Western nationalism; its basis is not social co-operation.

The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel.

Nation is the greatest evil for the Nation

The deepest source of all calamities in history is misunderstanding. For where we do not understand, we can never be just. Being

the forces of the human heart become entangled among the forces of the human automaton

so long as our individual desires are at conflict with the universal law, we suffer pain and are futile.

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

When she is with them she is not herself; when she is without them she is not herself; and so it is as difficult to leave your children as it is to stay with them. To discover this is to feel that your life has become irretrievably mired in conflict, or caught in some mythic snare in which you will perpetually, vainly struggle.

Writing comes out of tension, tension between what's inside and what's outside.

But it is not merely a taboo against complaint that makes the hardship of motherhood inadmissable: like all loves this one has a conflicted core, a grain of torment that buffs the pearl of pleasure; unlike other loves, this conflict has no possibility of resolution.

and I immediately felt guilty, while at the same time determined not to have something stolen from me... these two feelings, always coming in a pair...

why I did things I didn't want to do and couldn't do what I wanted.

Benim aç?mdan, kad?nlarla erkeklerin öyküsü, son tahlilde bir savaÅŸ öyküsüdür.

Their father - her ex-husband - had relinquished all responsibility for them when the marriage ended: it almost gave him pleasure, Lawrence believed, to see them suffer, partly because their suffering dramatized his own - as bullies enjoy seeing their own fear in their victims - and partly because it was a sure-fire way of punishing (her)

But I do admit that it has brought nearly all of my relationships to an end, because it is inevitable that that end is also – as you say, by the same logic – something I will feel driven to provoke.

And if there's one thing I know it's that writing comes out of tension, tension between what's inside and what's outside.

E se tem uma coisa que eu sei é que essa escrita vem da tensão, uma tensão entre o que está dentro e o que está fora.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative, but in this story the two poles had become dissociated and ascribed separate, warring identities.

All she wishes is for her life to be integrated, to be one thing, rather than an eternal series of oppositions that confound her whichever way she looks.

To be a mother I must leave the telephone unanswered, work undone, arrangements unmet. To be myself I must let the baby cry, must forestall her hunger or leave her for evenings out, must forget her in order to think about other things. To succeed in being one means to fail at being the other.

Life is sending you in one direction and you're pulling away in another, like you're disagreeing with your own destiny, like who you are is in disagreement with who they say you are.

You're a complication I don't need." He followed, placed his hands on each side of her head, and planted his knee between her thighs. "But you're a complication I want. One I'm going to have.