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Quotes About Conflict

Therm-bombs! Drop 'em right on us! I been roasted before—it's nothing!
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes
The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.Why didn't he finish her?Why couldn't he finish her?
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!
~ Angel Ramon Medina
It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War.
~ Angel Ramon Medina
Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main
Orcs do not have enemies." Monde tried to search for the proper term, "We have…adversaries.""Isn't that the same thing?""Depends on who's winning the war.
~ Sabrina Zbasnik
If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they'll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.
~ Jessica Meats, Omega Rising
Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.
~ Siobhan Davis, Destiny Rising
It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons
~ Rachel Carson
The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.
~ Paul Greene, A Time of Change
Why is your heart racing Tris?
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.
~ Richelle Mead
You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
~ William Shakespeare
Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.
~ Angelique Kidjo
Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
~ Muriel Spark
Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
~ Ovid
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
~ Learned Hand
In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.
~ Joe Lieberman
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
~ Herbert Read
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.