Quotes About Conflict

Harvard's polymath professor Steven Pinker argues "that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

The issue is not the issue," meaning the real conflict is not over any particular matter or dispute. "The issue is power.

The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone makes to themselves when faced with the misery of others; though they would like to do the right thing, they simply fail to do so and look after themselves instead.

camarada bolchevique Yevgueni Preobrazhenski* sí describió la prensa de papel moneda como «esa ametralladora del Comisariado de Finanzas que vomitaba fuego en la retaguardia del sistema burgués».

Pedir perdón exige más valentía que disparar un arma, que accionar una bomba.

Em todos os cantos os soldados topavam com japoneses imobilizados por cordas, sendo brutalmente espancados

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

Yes, everything's just fine. It's all perfectly fine. Except for one thing: it's all screwed up.

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born.

Cada uno de nosotros somos dos y cuando dos personas se encuentran, se aproximan, se mezclan, es raro que las cuatro puedan estar de acuerdo. El hombre que sueña en cada hombre que actúa, si tantas veces se enfada con el hombre que actúa, ¿cómo no se va a enfadar con el hombre que actúa y el hombre que sueña en el otro?

My soul finds hard edges to all the soft comforts on which I lean for support.

Every day I'm mistreated by Matter.

Each of us is two, and when two people meet, come into contact or join together, it's rare that the four of them can agree. If the man who dreams in the man who acts is so frequently at odds with him, how can he help but be at odds with the man who acts and the man who dreams in the Other?

We were born into a world that has suffered from a century and a half of renunciation and violence – the renunciation of superior men and the violence of inferior men, which is their victory.

Toda a vida é guerra, e a batalha é, pois, a síntese da vida.

As guerras e as revoluções — há sempre uma ou outra em curso — chegam, na leitura dos seus efeitos, a causar não horror mas tédio.

Diyelim ki, beni boÄŸmakta olan bir eli boynumdan söküyorum. O eli söküp atan kendi elimin, beni kurtar?rken boynuma bir ip geçirdiÄŸini fark ediyorum. Ä°pi boynumdan dikkatle ç?kar?yorum, ama bu kez de kendi ellerimle boÄŸaz?m? s?kmama ramak kal?yor.

Tenho que escolher o que detesto — ou o sonho, que a minha inteligência odeia, ou a ação, que a minha sensibilidade repugna; ou a ação, para que não nasci, ou o sonho, para que ninguém nasceu. Resulta que, como detesto ambos, não escolho nenhum; mas, como hei-de, em certa ocasião, ou sonhar ou agir, misturo uma coisa com outra.

Crees tú que hay otro modo de acabar con esa locura que no sea el establecimiento de una autoridad a escala mundial con fuerza suficiente para disuadir a cualquier grupo de la afición a jugar a batallitas?

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.