Quotes About Conflict

THE STORM OF WAR A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

There is something rather wonderful about the fact that, at a particularly perilous point in a war for the continued independent existence of the nation, the British Prime Minister could be upbraided by his wife for being short tempered; we can be fairly certain that no one was saying this to Churchill's opposite number in the Reich Chancellery.

I could have defended the British Empire against anyone,' he told an aide later on, 'except the British people.

If you would make war,' he would say to to General d'Hedouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.

I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon

Nations slaughter each other for family quarrels, cutting each other's throats in the name of the Ruler of the Universe, knavish and greedy priests working on their imagination by means of their love of the marvellous and their fears.

If you make war,' he would say to General d'Hédouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.'79

Vanniv put a hand over his chest. "I don't know what you're implying, madam professor, but I have a strict 'no attacking cities' policy.

Keras grinned. "Good. I haven't had a decent scrap in a while. Let me get my trouble coat.

Trust within a family sounded so reasonable on the surface.

having a three foot horn sticking through his chest. Unacceptable.

minimal conflict. Keras had told me that light also helped improve mental speed and clarity, implying some overlap with mental mana as well.

There is no fencing term I'm aware of for drawing a pistol and shooting your opponent in the face, but that was what it felt like when I heard his final words. I'd

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. (Warren Buffett, estimated 'worth' $44 billion, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, quoted in the New York Times, 26 November 2006)1

Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

Real peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice.

The French military saw UNAMIR as 'impinging' on its territory, even if that was presently filled with daily murder, violence and political hatred.

The time to argue the pacifist cause is before or after a war, not during it. While our men are fighting it is not right for others to undermine them.

The War To End All Wars - Book One - Falling Into Battle Andrew Wareham

Women don't have a say in my house. But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.