Quotes About Conflict

the United States' population is ten times the size of Canada's. If the two countries went to war and Canada chose to fight unconventionally, history would suggest that you ought to put your money on Canada.

The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong.

You're in a situation where you have two very important responsibilities that both have a deadline that is impossible to meet. You cannot accomplish both. How do you handle that situation?

In order to make somebody laugh, you have to be interesting, and in order to be interesting, you have to do things that are mean. Comedy comes out of anger, and interesting comes out of angry; otherwise there is no conflict.

of frustration and resentment that accompany interpersonal and intergroup conflict.

Montezuma's speech was not his surrender; it was his acceptance of a Spanish surrender.

They were "Scotch-Irish"—that is, from the lowlands of Scotland, the northern counties of England, and Ulster in Northern Ireland. The borderlands—as this region was known—were remote and lawless territories that had been fought over for hundreds of years. The people of the region were steeped in violence.

garment trade. Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant—given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and

Suicides tend to fall in wartime, for example, and rise in times of economic distress.)

Just under a third of the time, the weaker country wins.

For thousands of years, human beings have chosen to settle their differences by obliterating one another. And when we are not obliterating one another, we spend an enormous amount of time and attention coming up with better ways to obliterate one another the next time around. It's all a little strange, if you think about it.

Solomon was faced day in, day out with a version of the same problem that had faced Neville Chamberlain and the British diplomatic service in the fall of 1938: he was asked

The plan was okay—basically okay—but here we are trying to find something to win the war the easy way, and there ain't no such animal.

Bir aile bir diÄŸer aileyle sava??yorsa bu bir kan davas?d?r. Ayn? daÄŸ çevresinde konumlanm?? küçük kasabalar içerisinde pek çok aile birbiriyle sava??yorsa bu bir modeldir.

Iss?z bölgelerde ÅŸiddet ekonomik kazan?mla ilgili deÄŸil. KiÅŸisel. Onurunuz için sava??yorsunuz.

First, Spaniard exploits Indian, then, when he had children, he exploited the half-breed, then the pure-blooded Mexican Spaniard, the criollo, then the mestizo exploits everybody, foreigners, Indians, and all. Then the Germans and Americans exploited him: now the final chapter, the exploitation of everybody by everybody else –

He was aware of a desire at once for complete glutted oblivion and for an innocent youthful fling. "Alas," a voice seemed to be saying also in his ear, "my poor little child, you do not feel any of these things really, only lost, only homeless.

The more even sounds of the bus wove into Hugh's brain an idiotic syllogism: I am losing the Battle of the Ebro, I am also losing Yvonne, therefore Yvonne is...

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.

Some things are not worth fighting for and some are worth dying for, Wisdom helps you understand which are which.

Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.