Quotes About Conflict

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

Cuando no se deja espacio a la inteligencia, nomás se escucha el estruendo de los cañones y el crepitar de la fusilería.

GENNARO …«Chi ha voluto 'a guerra?» «Il popolo» – diceno 'e prufessure. «Ma chi l'ha dichiarata?» «'E prufessure» – dice 'o popolo. Si 'a guerra se perde l'ha perduta 'o popolo; e si se vince, l'hanno vinciuta 'e prufessure.»

GENNARO 'A sta guerra ccà se torna buone… Ca nun se vo' fa' male a nisciuno…»

Pablo var fyrtinn, stöðugt andsnúinn honum og vildi alltaf hafa rétt fyrir sér, en það voru þrjár óhrekjanlegar sannanir fyrir veikri skapgerð.

Pero que en las decisiones más trascendentes de la vida suele pasar que las distintas opciones son atractivas, y tienen puntos a favor. Y eso nos lleva al pantanoso territorio de las dudas. Las peores disyuntivas son las que nos presentan alternativas que deseamos, pero que se excluyen recíprocamente.

El "pero" es la palabra más puta que conozco -. "te quiero, pero..."; "podría ser, pero..."; "no es grave, pero...". ¿Se da cuenta? Una palabra de mierda que sirve para dinamitar lo que era,o lo que podría haber sido, pero no es.

All governments require enemy governments.

There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.

The tragedy of modern war is not so much that the young men die but that they die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori...

It seems that the U.S. Government—what country is that?—has got another war going somewhere, I forget exactly where, on another continent as usual, and they want Waterman to go over there and fight for them. For IT, I mean—when did a government ever consist of human beings?

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

I swear . . . if you existed I'd divorce you.

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf…Martha: I… am… George… I am.