Quotes About Conflict

If peace was really within reach wasn't it immoral to fail?

There in the course of one hour, a little elderly woman who embodied the spirit of nonviolence single-handedly prevented loss of life, and a preppie young man with fast fists flying also prevented violence. I would not presume to judge who was doing the will of God on that snowy February afternoon.

The Soviets had lost fifteen thousand lives and suffered more than thirty thousand casualties. Between a million and two million Afghans perished, perhaps 90 percent of them civilians. Villages were razed, crops and livestock destroyed, the landscape studded with mines. A third of the population sheltered in refugee camps in Pakistan or Iran.

Hatred is so much easier than reconciliation; no sacrifices or compromises are required.

between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves? She had had reasons for her choices. Good

Keeping your mouth shut is a devastating weapon. Your silence will make your opponent want to babble.

An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.

if you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his." Gen. George S. Patton

The most unbearable type of anger is a woman's—do anything to avoid it.

Reacher said nothing. We can't fight thirty people. To which Reacher's natural response was: Why the hell not?

We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight.

The smart money brings a gun to a knife fight. Reacher brought a hydrogen bomb.

and watched the truck squeal away, each tire insisting the other three were wrong.

Some kind of internecine conflict, over the spoils.

The guy said nothing in reply to that, and Reacher stepped back and closed the door on him. Chang said, "If our aim is to get out of here alive, I don't think you should be antagonizing them.

The hardcover book was an academic monograph from a Midwestern university about the Battle of Kursk. Kursk happened in July of 1943. It was Nazi Germany's last grand offensive of World War Two and its first major defeat on an open battlefield. It turned into the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen, and ever will see, unless people like Kramer himself are eventually turned loose.

Then finally he opened the wrong door, and what came out at him was his problem, not mine.

Infantry. That stuff matters over there.

Then Reacher breathed out and raised a placatory don't-shoot palm, and he half-stood, slow and calm, unthreatening, the complete opposite of sudden, and he kept himself half-turned away from the guys with the guns, and half-turned toward the group on the sofa, and he said, "Come on, Emily, let's get this done. They're going to nail you one way or the other. Might as well make it easy on yourself.

If you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

si vis pacem para bellum.

He was moving in the chair. Imperceptibly. Tiny violent movements, from side to side. Like he was fighting two alternating opponents, one on his left, one on his right. Like he knew he had to tell me where he had been, but like he knew he couldn't. He was jumping around like the absolute flesh-and-blood definition of a rock and a hard place.

Here's to bloody wars and dread diseases