Quotes About Conflict

There are no truces in cultural warfare. The law of cultural life is either occupy your own cultural territory or have it occupied by alien forces.

The course of Logos in world history is dialectic, which means that every successful revolution leads to a civil war.

Once religion and capitalism united to destroy Communism, it was only a matter of time before religion and capitalism would be at war with each other. This is precisely what happened in 2003 when the United States invaded Iraq and formally declared war on Islam.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

There are no winners in battle. Just survivors.

But because it lay between those two countries, first it would be conquered and ruled by the Egyptians, and then the Babylonians would invade, so that the people who lived there were constantly being driven from one place to another. They built themselves towns and fortresses, to no avail. They were still not strong

These tribes differed little from one another, either in appearance or in language. They spoke different dialects, which they could all understand if they chose. But they very rarely did. For, as is often the case, these close-related, neighbouring tribes were unable to get on with one another. They spent all their time exchanging insults and ridicule, when actually they were jealous of each other.

I hate fighting with you," he whispers. Well, stop being such an arse." He chuckles and the captivating sound reverberates through his chest. He tightens his hold on me. Arse?" Ass." I prefer arse." You should. It suits you.

I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.— Grace Trevelyan

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal.

The conversation had become unreal since Christianity had entered it. Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life.

He didn't care for Clive [anymore], but he could suffer from him.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterward.

How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself—hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth—their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.

Travel was a species of warfare.

The idealism and the brutality that ran through boyhood had joined at last, and twined into love. No one might want such love, but he could not feel ashamed of it, because it was "he", neither body or soul, nor body or soul, but "he" working through both.

The aims of battle and the fruits of conquest are never the same;

The idealism and the brutality that ran through boyhood had joined at last, and twined into love.

She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility.

THE SIGNORA HAD NO business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a court-yard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!