Quotes About Conflict

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

What terrible things we do to those we love!

The Lord Leto says that when it was denied an external enemy, the all-male army always turned against its own population. Always.

Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?

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

peace encourages aggressions, thus igniting war.

Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his awareness: 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.

People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.

She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him.

What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent—he solves." "How?" "In the simplest way: he decides." "Keeping his friends and destroying his enemies.

It could be a work of art among vendettas

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

So I had a son! Jessica flared. And she knew she was being goaded into this anger deliberately. You were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides. It meant so much to him, Jessica pleaded.

Cada hombre es una pequeña guerra.

Everywhere there is peace, Paul thought. Everywhere … except in the heart of Muad'dib.

Battle of Corrin.

I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented. The military force which is denied an external target always turns against its own people.

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do. -Teachings of the Golden Path, Bene Gesserit Archives

Storms beget storms. Rage begets rage. Revenge begets revenge. Wars beget wars.

What's your game?" "I modify the human desire for war." "People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Choose containable violence when violence cannot be avoided. Better this than epidemic violence. — Lessons of Choice, The BuSab Manual

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.