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Quotes About Conflict

do you want me to shoot thee, ingles ?... quieres ? it is nothing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Books should be about the people you know, that you love and hate, not about the people you study up about.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To kill them teaches nothing," Anselmo said. "You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. Prison is nothing. Prison only makes hatred. That all our enemies should learn.
~ Ernest Hemingway
perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
~ What the hell.
what is the benefit of this, that we win the war, but lose our goals from the revolution
~ Ernest Hemingway
Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends." Let
~ Ernest Hemingway
We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I wish I could feed the fish, he thought. He is my brother. But I must kill him and keep strong to do it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Los adioses no hacían más que acrecentar la turbación que le infundía semejante encuentro.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'm going back to Mike." I could feel her crying as I held her close. "He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I gave Brett what for, you know. I said if she would go about with Jews and bull-fighters and such people, she must expect trouble.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Njega sam ubio u samoobrani - opet ?e starac naglas. - I pošteno sam ga ubio. Osim toga, pomisli, svi se me?u sobom ubijaju, na ovaj ili onaj na?in. Ribarenje me ubija koliko me i održava na životu.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The reason you are so sore you missed the war is because war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Si-apoi, se gândi batrânul, toata lumea omoara pe toata lumea într-un fel sau altul. Pescuitul ma omoara în aceeasi masura în care ma tine în viata.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Que cosa mas mala es la guerra - What a horrible thing war is
~ Ernest Hemingway
En esta guerra se hacen muchas tonterías —dijo Agustín—. En esta guerra la idiotez no tiene límites.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Don't you know it is wrong to kill? Yes. But you do it? Yes. And you still believe absolutely that your cause is right? Yes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. The battery fired twice and the air came each time like a blow and shook the window and made the front of my pajamas flap. I could see the guns but they were evidently firing directly over us. It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
~ Ernest Hemingway