Quotes About Conflict

Tre ragazzi passano ridendo e Max li guarda con intensità. Su un muro butterato e chiazzato di licheni è fissata una piccola lapide di pietra. <>Ici a été tuè Buy Gaston Marcel agé de 18 ans, mort pour la France le 11 aout 1944. Jutta si siede per terra. Il mare è gonfio, grigio d'ardesia. Non ci sono lapidi per i tedeschi morti qui.

We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs.

How much easier it would have been if he and Sandy could have fought: a skirmish in the night, some harsh words, some measure of the truth actually spoken aloud.

The war drops its question mark.

War, Etienne thinks distantly, is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

He slips out the door and Konstance sits with her back against the wall and Mother paces, chin jutted, forehead creased, and Konstance goes to the door and presses it.

Funny how to celebrate peace we seem to want to simulate war.

If we don't talk to the thing we are afraid of, it becomes the thing we hope to kill.

Werner is succeeding. He is being loyal. He is being what everybody agrees is good. And yet every time he wakes and buttons his tunic, he feels he is betraying something.

What it says is that when going against your teenage child's wishes, the greatest wisdom is to say what you have to say, do what you have to do, and then stop—because they will not. An overwhelmingly valuable skill in the parenting of today's teenagers is learning to disengage—sooner rather than later.

I am saying rather that men did not behave as men are wont to do, in part because of the essential change in political bodies, where everyone senses that protection at all costs, rather than the good and bloody battle, is the rule of the day. As soon as someone says, "You want 200,000 people to die," the chance for a discussion is over, because the rejoinder, "You are speaking like a coward and an ass," is no longer possible.

vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world

Turn not your country's hand against your country's heart!

Perusian war proved that Antony and his supporters

The war against Sextus Pompeius would not have been won without him

UNFINISHED BUSINESS 46–44 B.C.

WHAT NOW TOOK PLACE FLOWED from a mismatch of expectations between the dictator and the political nation

his small party arrived to find the war over and Caesar victorious.

SHOWDOWN 32–31 B.C.

Hirtius rode into Antony's camp and was struck down and killed fighting around the commander's tent.

Political debate became polarized into bitter conflicts, with radical outsiders trying to press change on conservative insiders who, in the teeth of all the evidence, believed that all was for the best under the best of all possible constitutions.

the established legions would refuse to fight under the command of one of Julius Caesar's assassins.

KILLING FIELDS 43–42 B.C.

Philippic (the seventh) in which he defended his record as a peacemaker but said that any compromise with Antony would be dishonorable. "I do not reject peace," he said, "but I am afraid of war disguised as peace.