Quotes About Conflict

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

La cultura no puede convivir pacíficamente con la gestión, sobre todo, cuando ésta es molesta e insidiosa, y, más aún, cuando se trata de una gestión dedicada a distorsionar las ansias exploradoras/experimentadoras de la cultura para que encaje en el marco de la racionalidad dibujado por los gestores

Wie bei den Leichen, die man in den Krematorien von Auschwitz und Treblinka verbrannt hat, benötigt man auch hierfür keinen zusätzlichen Brennstoff; ständig schwelende Wut entzündet sich immer wieder neu an sich selbst.

Desire and love act at cross purposes. love is a net cast on eternity, desire is a stratagem to be spared the chores of net weaving. True to their nature, love would strive to perpetuate the desire. Desire, on the other hand, would shun love's shackles.

Hey," Han said, "Jabba's a friend of mine. You kill me, he won't take it kindly." The Priest laughed wheezily. "Hutts do not have friends," he said. "Farewell, Solo." Pointing the blaster at Han, the Priest's small, stubby finger began to tighten on the trigger.

Lay off her Ben, yelled Jake. Cally registered that he was defending her. "She's doing her best!" "Her best? That'll look good on our tombstones. RIP Bond Team—Cally did her best!

Dad. Jacen. Coruscant. Answers. I don't like it that you can win an argument without using verbs.

in March 2000, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered an apology for the U.S. role in the August events. She offered carefully worded regrets for the fact that the United States had "played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister" in 1953.

a saint with the heart of a devil, or a fiend with the soul of a saint.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

A house divided cannot stand.

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand

Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...

Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.

you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among us human creatures, and all professing to love liberty.

September] 27th [1862] If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and wll ever to struggle.