Quotes About Conflict

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

I should have kept you away." "What stopped you?" "Oh, fuck you!" Seth exploded. "Maybe because I fucking love you? Maybe because I didn't want this time together to end? I was being selfish, all right?" He didn't face Kyle, despite the bombshell he'd just dropped. "I wanted you here. I wanted time with you. I wanted to fuck you and love you and... shit! I fucked everything up.

He could no longer separate sex and love. Not now that he'd known--and destroyed--love. Since he couldn't seem to fall out of love with Gordon, he was stuck not liking sex with anyone else.

This is the best worst time of my life.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

Now you can show your revolutionary determination." He paused. "We want you to testify against your father at the struggle meeting.

Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His

You can tell your parents you'll follow Chairman Mao, not them. If they give you any trouble, just come here and tell us. We'll go to their work units and hold struggle meetings against them… .

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

the United States is founded on a set of ideas, but Americans have become so divided that they no longer agree, if they ever did, about what those ideas are, or were.

The last peace had created the conditions for the next war. Out of want came fear, out of fear came fury.

How do people reconcile themselves to war's worst cruelties?

Vietnamese men, women, and children were dying, starving, being shot, bombed, burned, and napalmed. American soldiers were being shipped home in boxes, coffins, and bags. And the U.S. government was paying an Upper West Side Freudian analyst to explain that the Vietnamese, as a people, had Oedipal issues.

At trial, the judge said, "We are at war and you should not bother the president."3

As soon as the curious Pequots came within range, the interpreter "pulls up his cock and let fly at one of them, and without question was the death of him."32 When

In 2003, the United States invaded a country that did not threaten us, did not attack us, and did not want war with us, to disarm it of weapons we have since discovered it did not have," wrote Pat Buchanan, placing the blame for the war on the neocons' hijacking of the conservative movement

Nearly as soon as the war with Mexico began, members of Congress began debating what to do when it ended. They spat venom. They pulled guns. They unsheathed knives. Divisions of party were abandoned; the splinter in Congress was sectional. Before heading to the Capitol every morning, southern congressmen strapped bowie knives to their belts and tucked pistols into their pockets. Northerners, on principle, came unarmed.