Quotes About Conflict

We gain the most hateful things at the hand of those dearest.

MEDEA: Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?

HIPP. My tongue hath sworn—my mind is still unsworn. [17]

the follies of two when they clash together in the same point, are the most hateful ill.

Hector. My word is simple. Arm and face the foe.

How dreadful a thing, mother, is the enmity of relations, having means of reconciliation seldom to be brought about!

Such things accursed war brings in its train

Twould please me best to fight these Greeks alone.

Dire and beyond all healing is the hate When hearts that loved are turned to enmity.

With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival.

The fucked thing," Doc Bryan says, "is the men we've been fighting probably came here for the same reasons we did, to test themselves, to feel what war is like. In my view it doesn't matter if you oppose or support war. The machine goes on." 

I cruised into this war thinking my buddy's going to take a bullet, and I'm going to be the fucking hero pulling him out of harm's way. Instead, I end up pulling out this little girl we shot, hiding in the backseat of her dad's car.

It was hard to love something so much and want it to disappear at the same time

This war has begun in darkness and it will end in silence.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating.

I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.

We think it a very promising little war. A microcosm, as you might say, of world drama.

Wars don't start nowadays because people want them. We long for peace, and fill our newspapers with conferences about disarmament and arbitration, but there is a radical instability in our whole world order, and soon we shall all be walking into the jaws of destruction again, protesting our pacific intentions.

I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.

Did you have a little talk with mummy?' 'Yes.' 'Have you gone over to her side?' The day before I would have said: 'There aren't two sides'; that day I said, 'No, I'm with you, Sebastian contra mundum.

Quando la gente odia con tanta foga, vuol dire che odia qualcosa che ha dentro di sé.

Did you have a little talk with mummy?' 'Yes.' 'Have you gone over to her side?' The day before I would have said: 'There aren't two sides,'; that day I said, 'No, I'm with you, Sebastian contra mundum.

England had declared war to defend the independence of Poland. Now that country had quite disappeared and the two strongest states in the world guaranteed her extinction.