Quotes About Conflict

If you respond to a child who's having difficulty putting his emotions aside so as to think through solutions by imposing your will more intensively and "teaching him who's the boss," you probably won't help him manage his emotions. Quite the opposite, in fact.

What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason? he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control. For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me! (Marsh, heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)

Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a renegade Pawnee and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it.

Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men.

Jamestown military leader John Smith threatened to kill all the women and children if the Powhatan leaders would not feed and clothe the settlers as well as provide them with land and labor.

Ranging, looting, and scalp hunting continued.

there was no hesitation on the part of Anglo settlers to consider unarmed civilians of all ages as appropriate targets of violence.

Another weapon of war was alcohol, accelerating in the eighteenth century.

have grown up with racism all my life. When I was a child, watching cowboys and Indians on TV, I would root for the cavalry, not the Indians. It was that bad. I was that far toward my own destruction."23

When Sauk leader Black Hawk led his people back from a winter stay in Iowa to their homeland in Illinois in 1832 to plant corn, the squatter settlers there claimed they were being invaded, bringing in both Illinois militia and federal troops. The Black Hawk War that is narrated in history texts was no more than a slaughter of Sauk farmers. The Sauks tried to defend themselves but were starving when Black Hawk surrendered under a white flag.

As Cherokees fled, abandoning their towns and fields, the soldiers seized, killed, and scalped women and children, taking no prisoners.51

The Indians shall see that there is malice enough in our hearts to destroy everything

Sumo vestri proeliis.

Mandy Mitchell's up to her elbows in someone else's shit." Of all the other housekeepers to be assigned to the same floor, she had to get Tori. "As you know, I go by Amanda Lockhart now." "Ah, you'll

No me gusta llenar de plomo a nadie, pero es mi trabajo

We never see the world as it really is but only how we see it. And because we're trapped in our own interpretation, we are prepared to go to war with other people caught in their view of reality – and never the twain shall meet.

Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. 'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other - and it's worse when they're in a group.

It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?' Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.

These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?

The meaning of my star is war.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting-grounds of his pack or tribe. The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white

The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.