Quotes About Conflict

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

I've - all my life with Nicole [Brown], no matter what was going on, I handled it without being physical with her.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.