Quotes About Conflict

The project of recovering myself as subject—that is, of recovering my freedom from its entrapment by the Other—necessarily puts me in conflict with the Other.

If I'd never found any other reason to advocate pacifism, this would be it; it is so much easier on the nerves not to perpetually be circling your fellow man, hand warily on the hilt of your knife.

he'd rather shoot you and rob the body than be reduced to

Politics has clogged the air of my life.

The strongman shoved him, and Uncle Barney fell to the ground. His knight's costume of pots and pans banged loudly.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

To live is to war with trolls.

I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

A sibling is a friend for life, but they are a friend for life that you are forced to have. And like anything that you are forced to do, occasionally people will drive you crazy.