Quotes About Conflict

The rules of war, then, have always changed as a reaction to the conflict that's just been fought.

I can't imagine that I would be terribly happy living in Afghanistan, either, though I dare say there is some satisfaction in going to bed thinking: 'Well, at least I wasn't shot today.

I must say, at this juncture, that I don't like fighting. I prefer passive resistance and, if that doesn't work, active fleeing.

Nuclear weapons are not a defence.

the ability for the same reality to vary drastically between different people was probably the root cause for some of history's greatest wars. If everyone on Earth experienced reality in the same way, there would be very little to disagree about. But

Although the borderline may not be consciously aware of this dilemma, he frequently places a friend or relation in a no-win situation in which the other person is condemned no matter which way he goes.

Also, Empathy should be expressed in a neutral way with minimal personal reference to the speaker's own feelings. The emphasis here is on the borderline's painful experience, not the speaker's. A statement like "I know just how bad you are feeling" invites a mocking rejoinder that, indeed, you do not know, and only aggravates conflict.

He that troubleth his own house...shall inherit the wind.

When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins.

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

Inner conflict and turmoil often result in conflict with others, so we must achieve inner peace to effectively pursue peace with others.

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ROMANS 7:21

there is no conflict in the Bible between His sovereignty and our responsibility.

Your job is to learn to create drama. Once you can do that, you can do anything.

If you knock even the most hateful human being, you will come out of the encounter looking less than heroic. People almost always side with the one being attacked.

Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

We can't live together," I remember screeching. "We're married. It's too corny!

Ka?dy cz?owiek ma jak?? racj?, tylko nie ka?da racja wychodzi na zdrowie.

Instead of doing away with the class war, we ought to intensify it, catch our enemy by the throat, because if we don't kill them in time, they'll put a knife in our backs.

We thought that not only would Germany come out of the war defeated, but Russia too. Things have turned out rather differently. In today's set-up we Poles are divided into two categories: those who have betrayed the freedom of Poland and those who do not wish to do so. The first wish to submit to Russia, we do not. They want Communism, we do not. They want to destroy us, we must destroy them. A battle is going on between us, a battle that has only just started.

An idea which needs rifles to survive dies of its own accord.

Cuando empezó a meterse de cabeza en la revolución, yo entendí lo que nos esperaba para siempre