Quotes About Conflict

He had come to tell his brother that power corrupts, that a man who fights for justice must himself be cleansed and purified, that love is greater than force. And none of these things had he done. God have mercy on me, Christ have mercy on me. He turned to the door, but it was locked and bolted. Brother had shut out brother, from the same womb had they come.

impasse implies that we're evenly matched. But we all know that's not true.

Child, you know nothing about war. You think it's big and it's loud and it's good versus evil. It's not. War is a delicate thing: it requires precision. It requires timing.

Yes. That's why I left the Necromancer Order. It's why I chose to fight alongside the man who'd murdered me and my family. It's why I fought on the same side as the man who murdered … well, you know what I'm referring to, don't you, Skulduggery? It's also why I betrayed Abyssinia. That's not over yet, by the way. The consequences of that partnership? It's not over for you.

but you're angry. Not with me, because no one could be angry with me, but with others.

Only a heathen brings a gun to a sword fight." "Only a moron brings a sword to a gunfight.

will heal your wounds," he said, "but I will not facilitate your battles.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

I studied him and realized that madness is the last defence of the mind when it can't hope to reconcile itself with events; I too was standing between routine and the unknowable.

I who am poisoned with the blood of both,Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?I who have cursedThe drunken officer of British rule, how chooseBetween this Africa and the English tongue I love?

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

Love does not imply pacifism.

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.

Who decides what justice is? How does one end this unending spiral of revenge where everyone believes they are right and their opponents are wrong?