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Quotes About Conflict

You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Love is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets on it to crow.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Everything kills everything else in some way.
~ Ernest Hemingway
my family's going to eat as long as anybody eats. What they're trying to do is starve you Conchs out of here so they can burn down the shacks and put up apartments and make this a tourist town. That's what I hear. I hear they're buying up lots, and then after the poor people are starved out and gone somewhere else to starve some more they're going to come in and make it into a beauty spot for tourists.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Half a million dead wops And he got a kick out of it The son of a bitch.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He killed more men than the cholera.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Ülkeyi yöneten bir s?n?f var, ak?ls?z bir s?n?f. Hiçbirinin bir boktan anlad??? yok. Bu savaÅŸ bu yüzden ç?kt? iÅŸte.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Mai pensare che la guerra, anche se giustificata, non sia un crimine.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She needs an enemy so badly always that she has to keep one near and she's the nearest and the easiest to attack knowing the weaknesses and strengths and all the faults of our defenses.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Those damn .357's are hard to get now because draft-dodging FBI's have to use them to hunt down draft-dodgers," the man said. "But a man has to fire a shot sometime or he doesn't know how he is shooting.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To win a war, we must kill our enemies.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If you make jokes with people, you create enemies to yourself.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who. Now
~ Ernest Hemingway
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain.
~ Ernest Hemingway