Quotes About Conflict

Cuando una niña consigue perturbar a un señor de mediana edad, todo se vuelve muy complicado.

Off with their heads! the woman screamed. Off with their stinking, boring heads! Redd, The Looking Class Wars

But I killed you, said Alyss. Did you? Redd turned to The Cat. Why wasn't I informed? --The Looking Glass Wars

No matter how kind or well-meaning you are, someone will always resent you.

Peace really isn't so peaceful.

will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.

Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Each man is a little war.

But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

People want order, this kind or some other. They sit in the prison of their hungers and see that war has become the sport of the rich. That's a dangerous form of sophistication. It's disorderly.

Come, come, the Baron said. We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke. The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise. Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.

Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple—black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos. The art of government as you call it, is the mastery of chaos.

Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!

My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.

Warfare leaves a residue of 'eat drink and be merry' that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown.

Each of us is the enemy [...] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.

If we cannot adjust our differences peaceably, then we are less than human

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion