Quotes About Conflict

Oniton, like herself, was imperfect. Its apple-trees were stunted, its castle ruinous. It, too, had suffered in the border warfare between the Anglo-Saxon and the Kelt, between things as they are and as they ought to be.

The keeper made out this was their fault, Archie knew better, and explained the matter to Maurice in the smoking-room with the aid of diagrams.

Where there is money and no inclination to violence, tragedy cannot be generated.

Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

One person's Utopia usually means another person's hell. We live in a state of uncertainty, not just in Northern Ireland, but by virtue of being human.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Albert Camus, que en cierta ocasión dijo: «Un hombre con el que no se puede razonar es un hombre al que hay que temer.»

A new generation that will hold on to its religion and grudges was being built, just as president ErdoÄŸan had promised years ago.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Mormons are taught to parrot the LDS Eighth Article: "We believe the Bible to be the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly." How does one know where it is not "translated correctly"? By very definition, that is wherever the Bible conflicts with Mormon doctrine (which is almost everywhere), in which case the latter is followed.

Glory always has a price, and that cost is almost always paid in copiously spilled blood.

Arousing him, all gods blast it, despite his anger and worry. Arclath shook his head, managing to free his mouth from hers at last. "Dragon take all!" he gasped. "Will

He continued yelling and screaming, calling us scumbags and maggots. He even said, "You are mere pimples on the face of humanity." I thought he was supposed to be glad to see us. What was the issue?

As I turned to the chapters dedicated to operations in North Vietnam, the ridiculous gave way to the absurd. I couldn't discern whether the enemy was the North Vietnamese or the U.S. Navy. The enemy might just as easily have been the State Department or even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They all seemed to have a voice in the ROE, and the tone of the voice was seldom in favor of winning the war, defeating the enemy, or even ensuring the fighter pilot's chances of survival.

shipping out of the states—this was January of '43—the goddamned generals

Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.

You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it's time for a fight.

you can't hate people and engage them with the gospel at the same time. You can't war with people and show the love of Jesus. You can't be both outraged and on mission.

Moreover, dissonance-evoking situations have been found to evoke a general negative affect without also evoking increased self-directed negative affect (Elliot & Devine, 1994) or decreased state self-esteem (E. Harmon-Jones, 2000a).

The white southerner had to lie continuously to himself in order to justify his world. Lie that the black people around him were inferior. Lie about what he was doing under the cover of night. Lie that he was Christian.

The white southerner had to lie continuously to himself in order to justify his world.

In front of him was the bitterness and disappointment in a country that fought them at every turn.

Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.