Quotes About Conflict

a war planned and pushed by avaricious merchants who wished to rule the world. And

What bothers you most, the fact that I beat your score on the shooting range, or that I broke your nose and kneed you in the nuts?

we didn't really lose the war, the country just lost interest.

She figured Nolasco wanted her there to call her out in front of Williams and Laub and otherwise run around the room pissing on chairs.

We keep trying to get Tracy to make it official and come down here full-time to train the newbies. What do you say, Tracy?" "Same as always, Lazar. I'll come when people stop killing each other." "Right, and when farts stop smelling.

The Emperor Napoleon is said to have confronted Cardinal Consalvi, the secretary of state to Pope Pius VII, saying that he, Napoleon, would destroy the Church—to which the Cardinal deftly responded, "Oh my little man, you think you're going to succeed in accomplishing what centuries of priests and bishops have tried and failed to do?

In their bitter words and their even more bitter tears, I would sense both a deep love for the Church and a practically bottomless disillusionment with it.

Do you think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth? I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law' " (Mt 10:34–36).

Arguing leave the participants emotionally exhausted and mentally depressed.

When we are offended in our relationship our feelings generally move through 4 stages: hurt anger revenge destructive action psychosomic symptoms depression. One of the best ways to neutralize the cycle is to force ourselves back to the source of hurt and deal with the problem at that level.

Disagree but don't argue.

In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless.

A pantherish twist and shift of his body avoided the blundering rush of two yellow swordsmen, and the blade of one missing its objective, was sheathed in the breast of the other. A

their squat-walled cities were drenched in blood.

In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle

What you inherited without lifting a finger—except to poison a few brothers—I fought for.

When my fictional characters can't slash and slog and litter the pages with one another's carcasses, I'm an utter flop as a tale-spinner.

This war is not about slavery.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

It is good that war is terrible. Or else we would become too fond of it.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.