Quotes About Conflict

Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!

Yes, he had the heart to sacrifice his daughter, to bless the war that avenge the loss of a woman.

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.

No arguments will give courage to the coward.

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

THE WOLF AND THE LAMB A Wolf came upon a Lamb straying from the flock

Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.

The most dangerous enemy is the one within.

A mouse is too weak to fight a lion but too strong for the cords that can holds a lion.

My memory is again in the way of your history

They make a desolation and call it peace.

Des soldats, des enfants-soldats se sont joints à eux. Tout ce monde s'est réuni, s'est mis en cercle, et ça a organisé un concert de pleurs. Tout ce monde s'est mis à pleurer. Un groupe de bandits de grand chemin, de criminels de la pire espèce, pleurer comme ça. Il fallat voir ça, ça valait le détour.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH.

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In the near term, such compromises made possible a continental union of North and South that provided bountiful benefits to freeborn Americans. But in the long run, the Founders' failure to put slavery on a path of ultimate extinction would lead to massive military conflict on American soil—the very sort of conflict whose avoidance was, as we shall now see, literally the primary purpose of the Constitution of 1788.

the first global war began in 1754 with the killing of a French Canadian officer in America's backcountry. The slaying of Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville on May 28, 1754, forty miles south of the Forks of the Ohio (modern-day Pittsburgh), occurred at the hands of colonial and Indian fighters led by a young Virginia officer named George Washington.

From the British point of view, who better to pay than colonists, who had been the war's beneficiaries? The war, after all, had eliminated a major threat to British America. From the colonial point of view, why should colonists pay for a British shield that they no longer needed?

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

But if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends are often equally bloody. We're familiar with political love that ends in tyranny, where a ruler's firm conviction that he has the true interests of his nation at heart ends up lending him the confidence to murder without qualms (and 'for their own good') all who disagree with him. Romantic lovers are similarly inclined to vent their frustration on dissenters and heretics.