Quotes About Conflict

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

58 Cuando vas junto con tu contrario a querellarte ante el magistrado, haz en el camino todo lo posible por librarte de él, no sea que por fuerza te lleve al juez, y el juez te entregue al alguacil, y el alguacil te meta en la cárcel. 59 Porque yo te aseguro que de ella no saldrás, hasta que hayas pagado el último maravedí. 13

There was no call from anybody in the band to discuss any of the things that had been a problem or what I had done wrong.

overwhelmed the Scots. The Prince's lack of skill as a commander

In Revelation, the real book of Life is that of the Lamb, it is not that of the old temple! It is the Lamb and His Bride that are in conflict with the Harlot. As we have seen, Revelation deals with "those who say they are Jews but are not, for they are liars" (2:9; 3:9). The question was, "Who is the true Israel?" old Israel had her book of life, new Israel had the Lamb's Book of Life!

The Great War (I) had taught everyone an important lesson: survival in the face of a common enemy depended on working together. That meant resolving differences peacefully...

The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.

Violence is the way of the world because competition is the way of life-perpetuation. Without violence there can be no competition, and without competition there can be no life. Something dies for every instant that something else lives.

understood that when treachery is philosophically justified, true peace is impossible.

Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you (Koran 9:123).

Victoria was always nagging him to eat better, drink less, and go to the gym, but then again, Pablo has long felt that she (barely) sublimates her innate fascism with exercise and diet regimens and has recently taken to attending weekly "boot camp" sessions where she probably achieves orgasms as some steroid-enraged instructor screams at her. Ana

Mexico, the land of pyramids and palaces, deserts and jungles, mountains and beaches, markets and gardens, boulevards and cobblestoned streets, broad plazas and hidden courtyards, is now known as a slaughter ground. And for what? So North Americans can get high.

They say that love conquers all. They're wrong, Keller thinks. Hate conquers all. It even conquers hate.

Conquistaron el fuerte, utilizando morteros y cargas explosivas de gran potencia, mataron a sesenta soldados y capturaron al resto. Las FARC cortaron la principal autopista que comunica los distritos del sudoeste con el resto del país.

he also thinks it's true of most people, that the best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can't manage to get out.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. —Stephen King

He embarrassed the family," Jacky said at his sentencing hearing. "So you killed your own brother," the judge said. "Half brother," Jacky said. "What, maybe I should have only half killed him?" The judge maxed him out.

When you ask people, "What's America's longest war?" they usually answer "Vietnam" or amend that to "Afghanistan," but it's neither. America's longest war is the war on drugs.

I'm not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the woman you made me. Elena is at war.

This violent state of mind. This violent state of mine.

Deliver my soul from the sword. My love from the power of the dog.

Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

y la paz se convirtió en algo desagradable para unos hombres a quienes la guerra había satisfecho durante largo tiempo las necesidades vitales.