Quotes About Conflict

not even this was enough to prevent a Persian expeditionary force from fighting its way through Anatolia towards the capital in 615.

Heraclius made a humiliating offer of peace.

If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.

Chosroes was murdered by his own side early in 628.

mere forty years after the death of Basil II, Byzantium found itself faced with new and aggressive enemies

on all sides during the 1060s:

The campaign that cost Julian his life was part of a series of wars on the empire's eastern frontier

The military machine that had humbled Athens in the Peloponnesian War had become simply irrelevant.

The war lasted ten years, so the story goes.

More Greeks actually fought on the Persian side against him than under his banner.

In the years 416 and 415 BCE, Athens had recovered sufficiently to embark on two of the most notorious episodes of the war

episodes of the war

Of the Melian population the Athenians executed all the grown men

is called Wilusa by the Hittites and Wilios, later Ilios or Ilion, by the Greeks

Philip won the day. As many as half the Athenians and Thebans were either killed or taken prisoner.

War leaves a legacy of human suffering that does not end with peace.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

The Byzantine governor assembled an army considerably larger than that of the Normans and rebels. He then sent a herald to the opposing camp offering either the Normans' safe return to Lombard territory or battle. In response, an enormous Norman knight smashed his mailed fist on the head of the Byzantine herald's horse; the horse fell dead on the spot. (Yes, this actually happened, historians agree.)23 The battle began the next day.

escuadrones de la muerte evangélicos» integrados por agentes de la Policía Nacional Civil que pertenecen a distintas sectas religiosas. «Estamos librando —dice— una lucha contra el Mal. Así se justifican los asesinatos extrajudiciales».

Según sus informes, más de cien mil personas fueron muertas por miembros del ejército guatemalteco entre 1960 y 1996, y unas diez mil por miembros de los varios grupos guerrilleros en el mismo periodo».

There are wars between different kinds or genres of books, he said. And, as in real wars, the best don't always win; but for us, in the end, there are no losers, although they all fade away.

si la política interior es mala, tendremos la peor política exterior.

Según la visión pesimista, en las elecciones de 2018, como dice la fábula, la hormiga, por odio a la cucaracha, votó por el insecticida: murieron todos, hasta el grillo que se abstuvo.