Quotes About Conflict

Real strategists are warriors and must be willing and able to fight battles, to "see the elephant," as Civil War soldiers were fond of saying.

While the morality of slavery alone might have eventually led to a showdown, it was America's sprawling growth that made the issue explosive.

if you thought like Sherman and there was a nest of treason to be found, Columbia was in your crosshairs.

Whoever wins society will win this war."says Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

Better that anger should be directed into jihad abroad than into Iran-style revolution at home.

In Sergeant McCaustic I had found my personal hair shirt. We had come to an understanding within a day or two; that is, we had agreed that we were incompatible.

Nor was my squad troubled by racial or religious bigotry. We had no "inner conflict," as the phrase goes. These things happen most often in the imagination of men who never fought. Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.

It is glorious to drink the wine of the enemy.

All the logic seemed to be on our side. The Marine Corps seemed a madness.

Keep vaunting head over heart, and soon the head will arrive at the complete folly of any kind of fight and meekly surrender the treasure to the first bandit with enough heart to demand it.

Chris was vaguely troubled by the revelation that one of America's closest allies was being deceived by the U.S. Government, but he let the thought slip away and accepted an invitation to go to lunch with some of the other TRW employees assigned to Rhyolite. The

The conversation had gotten off on the wrong foot and she knew it.

True genius, Churchill taught us, resides in the capacity to evaluate conflicting information.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

My body which my dungeon is,And yet my parks and palaces.

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

They offer a wrist-grasp of peace, but that is only to hold you close, by the sword-arm,' he told us, sucking ale off the wet end of his hair. 'The dagger is in the other.

Gored by the climacteric of his want,he stalls above me like an elephant.

My mind's not right.A car radio bleats,"Love, O careless Love…. " I hearmy ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,as if my hand were at its throat….I myself am hell;nobody's here.

Our cost Is nothing to the lovers, whoring Mars And Venus, father's lover.

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.