Quotes About Conflict

Religious unreason should acquire and even greater stigma in our discourse, given that it remains among the principal causes of armed conflict in our world. Before you can get to the end of this paragraph, another person will probably die because of what someone else believes about God. Perhaps it is time we demanded that our fellow human beings had better reasons for maintaining their religious differences, if such reasons even exist

Some nights," I said, "I picture myself naked, covered in napalm, running down the street. But then it's not napalm. It's apple butter. And it's not a street. It's my mother.

If not for the deer, the men would have shot each other for sport.

but I swore early on that if I ever had a family, I would never expose it to that kind of squabbling.

The simple truth is that Mother and Dad were two of the most quarrelsome people who ever lived together. I loved them both dearly, and they were two wonderful individuals, but they were always at odds, and they really only stayed together because of Bud and me.

As I look back on that period now, I realize I had split the company in half, setting up two factions which began to compete fiercely with one another. There was the old guard, including many of the store managers, remaining loyal to Ferold, and the new guard, many of whom owed their jobs to Ron. Pretty soon, everybody began to take sides, lining up behind either Ron or Ferold, who didn't get along at all.

Meanwhile, the house was dividing up against itself. A lot of the newer, younger guys were lining up on Ron's side, and the older bunch who ran the stores were backing Ferold.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

I was chilled by the promise of protection that had drawn a child out of a basement and onto an exposed Sarajevan playground.

When Taimour was hit by a bullet in the left shoulder, he began to stagger toward the man who shot him, reaching out with his hands. He remembered the look in the soldier's eyes. 'He was about to cry,' Taimour said three years later.

Everyone pushes and is angry at the people who push them.

AIDANCE  (A'IDANCE)   n.s.[from aid.]Help; support: a word little used. Oft have I seen a timely parted ghost,Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless,Being all descended to the lab'ring heart,Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy.Sh.Hen. VI.

Pride is undoubtedly the original of anger; but pride, like every other passion, if it once breaks loose from reason, counteracts its own purposes.

How dreadful, on the contrary, must be her case, who is the occasion of propagating dissention, irreconcilable hatred, and abhorrence between her own relations and those of the man to whom she for life engages herself!

Party men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a downright enemy.

Dodge, I'm going to tell you something. Judging by your tone, you're going to have to kill me after. Frankly, I'd just as soon not known.

He had to admit: She'd got to him. This demure second-grade schoolteacher, who'd been faithful to her husband, but who had fucked him with the same fervor with which she'd fought him two days ago, had crawled under his mean ol' hide.

My ex—who was an academic—and I used to argue about the best way to broil a salmon. Neither of us was grateful for the gift that someone else might cook it, albeit slightly incorrectly. It was a horrible way to live.

I married you to stop the bloodshed, and you keep killing. When will it be enough- when?

The Lemon Tree Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews

Generally, it can be said that any Arab house that survived the impact of the war . . . now shelters a Jewish family.

Our enemy is the only partner we have.

Small countries have to come to terms with great ones. Hitler had the power; thus some of his demands had to be accepted.

Who would have believed that Israeli soldiers would kill hundreds of children and that the majority of Israelis would remain silent?