Quotes About Conflict

I missed that one,' Henryson said. 'The war, I mean.' 'Don't worry,' Snipes said. 'Another one's always coming down the pike. That's something all your historians and philosophers agree on. A feller over in Germany looks to be ready to set a match to Europe soon enough, and quick as they snuff him out there'll be another to take his place.

After a siege of 293 days, Grant forced the Confederates to abandon Petersburg and Richmond on the same day.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it.

The shepherd drives the wolf19 from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially if the sheep was a black one.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

People don't start wars, governments do.

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

Ending a conflict is not so simple, not just calling it off and coming home. Because the price for that kind of peace could be a thousand years of darkness for generation's Viet Nam borned.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.

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We think it's okay to talk to others about the problem we're having with so-and-so, but we never go straight to the source. We're guilty of slander or gossip. Even if what we say is true, it's still gossip.

La guerra es una porquería no sólo derriba casas, sino también los principios más elevados.

we always feel our reality isn't enough. So we consume drugs and give ourselves artificial memories; we want to escape from the confinement of our lives. But I assure you that the only way to resolve the conflict is to learn to accept it and find your own place in the world.

Toda guerra es abominable; las guerras civiles son, además, perversas. Ya lo habéis visto ahora en Yugoslavia. En España fue también así. Violencia y crueldad hasta la náusea.

El amor era a menudo el caballo de Troya que permitía el triunfo del enemigo interior.

Governor Evans had himself given the order that citizens could "shoot on site" any Indian who trespassed

could not understand why, at treaty councils with the whites, when white prisoners were brought in, beaten, scarred, and noses burned off, the whites suddenly would not continue the talks. Always they turned on them, making demands that were not originally agreed upon

Chivington and his Third Colorado Regiment wear uniforms and fight the Indians only as an excuse to stay out of the real war going on back East, so they don't want peace because they won't have an excuse to stay out of that war." "Evans

Colonel John Chivington, a vicious Indian-hater who committed uncalled-for atrocities against peaceful Southern Cheyenne villages, including the killing and mutilating of women and children. To create excuses for such attacks, gangs of white men began committing raids on their own kind, dressed and behaving as Indians, using

white raiders attack their own kind just so it can be blamed on the Cheyenne." Ansley

We all want our own way; some of us have the skills to get our own way adaptively, and some of us don't.