Quotes About Conflict

Private property is the smallest unit of warfare - The Environmental Rescue Team Handbook

Every artificially inseminated pig is a blow to the face of Imperialist warmongers.

Whatever equilibrium your nation reaches, there is always someone, at home or abroad, who has reasons to upset it.

Nuestra época es de hecho la época de la organización intelectual de los odios políticos. Este será uno de sus principales rasgos a destacar en la historia moral de la humanidad. JULIEN BENDA, La trahison des clercs, 1927

It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff," he grumbled. And it had been easier when he hadn't cared if he made any of them cry.

She kicked me off the bed!

Marian sank down on one of the kitchen chairs and braced her head in her hands. He got mad at her for sweeping up spilled sugar but dragged her outside to throw a skillet at bales of hay. She threw a pot at him and missed, so he was going to teach her how to clobber him with a skillet. Even taking into account that he was an Eyrien male, there was only one explanation for his behavior. The man was insane.

HE HAS TEETH. SHE HAS A GUN. THEY ARE THE LAW.

Talking about us and them is part of what caused the trouble and got a lot of people killed in the past year.

Lesson one, bitch. Don't start a pissing contest with someone who has the strength and temper to hurt you.

Anger and reason are rarely partners

why human males would train a female to shoot a gun and then tease her into being angry enough to shoot them.

A shining fortune. Humans have killed each other for a single gem.

he was the friend who would become an enemy in order to remain a friend. 3

Victory implies a fight, and there is nothing to be gained by fighting with us. The humans can't win.

When would humans realize they always started the fights that would kill them? He

A leader had to stay alert and aware of the enemy who lived all around his people, had to enforce rules and agreements. Had to decide if the humans needed to be exterminated. And a leader ran the risk of absorbing too much that was human, becoming too much like the enemy.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Humans in love are terrible. You see them come hungering at one another like prehistoric wolves, you see something struggling for life in between them like a root or a soul and it flares for a moment, then they smash it. The difference between them smashes the bones out. So delicate the bones.

Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.

You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.

The fact is that there are people, good people who, not because they want to but all the same, fall in love with the wrong thing.

Nighthawks I wanted to run away with you tonight but you are a difficult woman the rules of you - Past and future circle round us now we know more now less in the institute of shadows. On a street black as widows with nothing to confess our distances found us the rules of you - so difficult a woman I wanted to run away with you tonight.