Quotes About Conflict

No one ever wins a generational war.

The war on terrorism can never be won.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?

On the contrary, he would come home and rail at both parties with great wrath—and plainly proved one day to the satisfaction of my wife, and three old ladies who were drinking tea with her, that the two parties were like two rogues, each tugging at the skirt of the nation; and that in the end they would tear the very coat off its back, and expose its nakedness.

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men." A. W. TOZER

They can't afford to solve the issues because they've turned the conflict itself into profit.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold The Second Coming

THE SAD, NOT-SO-SAD, BALLAD OF GOAT-HEAD JEAN, AMBIVALENT DEVIL QUEEN BY MICHAEL LOUIS CALVILLO

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.

If only her problems were as simple as dealing with a handful of townspeople with pitchforks...

There's no winning arguments with your parents

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

A perfect matching between a man and a woman starts with a fight between them.

The culturalization of politics analytically vanquishes political economy, states, history, and international and transnational relations. It eliminates colonialism, capital, caste or class stratification, and external political domination from accounts of political conflict or instability. In their stead, "culture" is summoned to explain the motives and aspirations leading to certain conflicts

Nonviolence is an ideal propped up against the cultural reality of violence.