Quotes About Conflict

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

When I saw that things which were to me so intolerable moved them not at all, that words that melted my heart to speak had only offended them with the speaker, I was at first stunned and then overcome with a desperate sickness and faintness at the heart

It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own. The bitterness that has been brought about by arguments on public questions is proverbial. Lovers have been parted by bitter quarrels on theories of pacificism or militarism; and when an argument upon an abstract question engages opponents they often desert the main line of arguments in order to abuse each other.

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

Eris, the Goddess of Discord and sister of Ares, presides over separatio. It was she who came uninvited to a marriage on Olympus and flung into the midst of the gathering an apple inscribed "to the fairest." Thus she brought about the judgment of Paris. Comparisons are odious and comparison is what the golden apple provoked. To determine what is "more" and what is "most" requires and leads to judgments.

Ford to City: Drop Dead.

The man you love to hate.

Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.

Fire in the lake: the image of Revolution.

The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

His [Ishmael's] hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

My karma ran over your dogma.

Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Every man's sword was against his fellow.

Some of them want to use youSome of them want to get used by youSome of them want to abuse youSome of them want to be abusedSweet dreams are made of thisWho am I to disagree?

What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.