Quotes About Conflict

We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.

wish we'd stayed at home if you keep picking on her.' He followed them into the house. 'I'm sorry, Angel. I didn't mean to upset you. It's

What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

I wanted to ask him if that was part of the plan, but I knew he would have said yes. The plan was to make war; anything that followed was part of it.

If you look at a map, you will see that the country of Italy is shaped like a boot, and that the island of Sicily appears to be something that Italy is kicking. What do you think Sicily has done to annoy Italy?

More tears began to flow, but tears of rage this time. Mona was furious with herself, with Hugh, but above all, with Jelkes, whom she recognised as acting as a kind of conscience to the pair of them.

No argument in the world is ever resolved. Resolving would suggest some liquid in which arguments could be immersed, perhaps love. But it must be love enough.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems brought the second ending of the Grundlagenstreit. Where Hilbert had won the conflict in the social sense, he had lost it in the scientific sense.

When a Jew dies on a Christian bosom he dies impaled.

Ich dachte (...) an die beiden alten Männer, die einander rasierten, während die Welt sich weiter drehte, denn schließlich und endlich wird das Männerhaar trotz Friedensvertrag und Kampf um die Vormacht in Irland weiterwachsen.

If you don't want to suffer you should tear yourself apart.

in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, head-on and eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, if I could, I would instigate Meat-Axe Day, and out of the goodness of my heart I would whack your head off with a couple of others. Every man should be allowed one day and a hatchet just to ease his heart.

I do not wish to listen to people denouncing their parents.

Prokofiev and I never did become friends, probably because Prokofiev was not inclined towards friendly relations in general. He was a hard man and didn't seem interested in anything than himself and his music.

Ljudi se vide u patnji, narod na svadbi, a država u ratu.

Nema Srbija tu sre?u da susedi ratuju na njenoj strani.

Za ubijanje moraju se imati neke ideje. Te krupne, banalne, svim ljudima iste re?i. Bez takvih izgovora mi smo i sebi samo obi?ne ubice. Mora se imati ratni cilj, mora se pristati na ratnu obmanu.

I've often said I don't lose my temper as much as use it. I don't do either unless I have to because I love peace and harmony, but when you step in my territory, I will call you on it.

In July and August 1914, fewer than fifty individuals, all of them men, made the decisions that took their countries to war.

one-quarter of the world's land surface changed hands between 1876 and 1915,

Battling Pentex in the Amazon was to them a holy war.