Quotes About Conflict

Gran, I love you," Sarah said, "but your blind adherence to the dominant culture's values makes me want to scream.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

The need for such cathartic relief derives from the fact that even the best of organizations generate "toxins"—frustrations with the boss, tensions over missed targets, destructive competition with peers, scarce resources, exhaustion from overwork, and so on (Frost, 2003; Goldman, 2008).

KNOWLT HOHEIMER I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet water my heart I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary, Instead of running away and joining the army. Rather a thousand times the country jail That to lie under his marble figure with wings, And this granite pedestal Bearing the words, «Pro Patria». What do they mean, anyway?

Russians accuse Mao of seeking "world holocaust.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

But what Ben was doing was different. He wasn't using the information against her. He was merely trying to keep the peace.

He is not a pleasant person,' I said. 'I don't know what we need him for.' 'You'll just have to learn to get along with him,' my mother replied. We were speaking of her husband, the man she had chosen to father her children.

Children should be seen and not heard,' my mother contributed grimly, ganging up on me. That was the worst part, having her join the enemy. I knew it was her idea of diplomacy, and that it probably stemmed from cowardice, but to me it was simple betrayal, selling out her own child for the sake of peace.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.

Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.

wife punctured this feeble artifice without effort, and carried him off incontinently to whatever of marital purgatory she had hoarded up for him

The Misses Bale don't like it a bit, but I say to them, "Titty," I say -or as it may be, "Tatty" – their names are Titania and Tatiana -that awful mother of theirs –

Wars and alarums unto nations wide.

The wars fought by human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of a sea slug.

Whenever we engage in a war or move in on some other country, it is always to liberate somebody.

We have earned the slogan, "Yanks, go home!"

when his drinking had cost him discharge from the Army. He had known it again after Shiloh, that uncoordinated

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.