Quotes About Conflict

Folgte er aber wirklich dem Rat […] so bliebe er dann trotz allem in seiner Fremde, verbittert durch die Ratschläge, und den Freunden noch ein Stück mehr entfremdet […] fände sich nicht in seinen Freunden und nicht ohne sie zurecht, litte an Beschämung, hätte jetzt wirklich keine Heimat und keine Freunde mehr; war es da nicht viel besser für ihn, er blieb in der Fremde, so wie er war?

The bony structure of his own forehead blocks his way; he batters himself bloody against his own forehead.

Der Vergleich von dem Sperling in der Hand und der Taube auf dem Dach paßt hier nur sehr entfernt. In der Hand habe ich nichts, auf dem Dach ist alles und doch muß ich –so entscheiden es die Kampfverhältnisse und die Lebensnot– das Nicht wählen.

They embraced one another, her little body burned in K.'s hands, they rolled, in a semi-conscious state from which K. tried constantly but unsuccessfully to surface, a little way on, bumped into Klamm's door with a hollow thud, then lay there in the puddles of beer and the rubbish

Cuánto la hemos hecho sufrir por tu forma de ser y cuánto la hiciste tú sufrir por la nuestra!, sin considerar las ocasiones en que tenías razón, porque ella nos protegía, a pesar de que esa protección ha debido muchas veces ser una especie de respuesta subconsciente, manifiesta y silenciosa contra tu autoritarismo. (p. 39)

When people encroach on forest land and in the periphery of habitats of wild animals, they attack humans.

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.

Sometimes, when I open my mouth, all hell breaks loose. Other times, I feel like a voice in the wilderness and I wonder, 'Does anybody get this?'

Many locals in east Africa are calling for fences to separate wildlife and people. They argue it will reduce conflict and also make it easier to protect the wildlife from poachers. From my experience in Tanzania, no fence and no militia will hold back the tide of poachers drawn by the huge sums of money at stake.

Many people might wonder why conserving wildlife should be considered so important when there are wider issues of global and national interest, such as conflict and poverty to worry about. The answer is because these issues are interlinked.

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.

Bob Beckel and Juan Williams are two people who I love personally. But what they say drives me absolutely nuts.

You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.

What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.