Quotes About Conflict

You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

The smell of it. The feel of it." He rubbed one hand up and down the stained sheath of his sword, making a faint swishing sound. "War is honest. There's no lying to it. You don't have to say sorry here. Don't have to hide. You cannot. If you die? So what? You die among friends. Among worthy foes. You die looking the Great Leveller in the eye. If you live? Well, lad that's living, isn't it? A man isn't truly alive until he's facing death." Whirrun stamped his foot into the sod. "I love war!

Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.

Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War.

Believe it or not, we all want what's best. The root o' the world's ills is that no one can agree on what it is.

Facing an enemy on the battlefield took courage, but you had your friends beside you. Standing alone against your friends, that was a different kind of courage.

West stared at her as she trudged off up the hill after the Northmen, hardly able to believe his ears. She was happy to bed that stinking savage, but he was too angry? It was so unfair he almost choked on his rage.

You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful.

What better foundation for an alliance than mutual hatred and suspicion?

Jezal swallowed and hunched his shoulders, watching the chunks of long dead wood file slowly past like rows of tombstones. "I don't like this," he muttered under his breath. "You think I do?" Bayaz frowned grimly over at him. "You think any of us do? Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honor are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained.

There is a time for wondering what a man wants," said Fror, no fear at all in his. "And there is a time for splitting his head. This is that second time.

I'd become a woman who dreamed of yelling at people who didn't even know how infuriating I found them.

War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Fight your battles with words, not fists

There's no use asking Mom and Dad to talk to Nana about her punishment. They won't stand up to her. They never do. This is why I decide I am not going to speak to Nana or Papa or my parents. What Leila and I did was wrong. But now I have been put in the middle of something else entirely. Something about Adam and the adults and things that happened before I was born, maybe even before Adam and Uncle Hayden and Mom were born. ~pgs 144-145; Hattie on adulthood

Pop didn't believe in discussing problems--'Just goin' out of your way to look for trouble,' was his answer to anything that looked like a serious question.

There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war.

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.