Quotes About Conflict

Why don't you got a man, Shy?' 'Don't like men much, I guess.' 'You don't like anyone much.' 'They started it.' 'All of 'em?' 'Enough of 'em.

Last Argument of Kings." Inscribed on his cannons by Louis XIV

But then getting warriors to fight has always been easy. It's stopping the bastards that's the tougher trick.

There's only one kind of good news, and that's dead enemies.

It's a sorry fact that the man who strikes first usually strikes last,

Ljudi ponekad moraju raditi i nešto što im se ne svi?a ako žele ostati zapam?eni. Kroz muke, ne kroz lagodnost, sti?u se slava i ?ast. Kroz konflikte, ne kroz mir, sti?u se bogatstvo i mo?.

fear them?" "One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.

But being right is of little value in war.

In bloody days, swords were worth more than gods. They certainly had 'em outnumbered.

Drink and I have had some long and painful conversations and found we simply can't agree.' 'Drink and I can't agree either.' She shrugged and tossed it down herself. 'But we keep on having the argument.

Every hero is someone's villain

Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all. Now, as he stumbled back trying to hold his neck together, he found it's not the righteous win, but them who strike first and strike hardest.

Once you set your mind on killing, it is hard to choose the number of the dead.

Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood.

War's ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror.

We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but… not by much.

It's worth giving your enemies a chance. They know they can't expect one and might be thankful for it." Rikke frowned sideways. "Friends are much harder to please.

It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many.

I may be no kind of fisher, but I've always had a talent for making men bleed. Best put that stick down before I make you fucking eat it.

Trouble with the good fight, I find… once

In times of peace, the warlike man attacks himself.' Friedrich Nietzsche

High ideals and reality are like oil and water," muttered Vick. "They don't mix well.

As commander of a battalion his trade had been to fight the enemy with steel. As a staff officer, it seemed, his role was to fight his own side with paper, more secretary than soldier. He felt like a man trying to push a huge stone up a hill. Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, "Well, it's not my rock.

There can be no peace with the damn Vanstermen,