Quotes About Conflict

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill—and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) alongside Bashir's love of Arde Falastin (Land of Palestine).

I like things to be clearly defined. Trouble brews when the lines are blurred. When people don't know where they stand.

For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.

Porque las guerras no se ganan ni se pierden, solamente se sufren. Y todo el que ha estado en una guerra, así salga ileso, es un herido de guerra.

El cómico francés Coluche tenía un tremebundo chiste: "en la primera guerra mundial, hubo 75% de víctimas militares y 25% civiles. En la segunda, 50% militares y 50% civiles". Y remataba diciendo: "¡En la próxima será mejor ser militar!

Lo común es que la literatura provenga del lado de las víctimas, pues el escritor, agazapado, se siente más cómodo donde caen las bombas que al lado de los cañones

Un odio bien alimentado es la mejor arma para seguir matando

If you kill with homemade bombs it's called terrorism, and if you kill with machine guns and hunger it's called defense.

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

Jennifer Doyle (2015, 33) observes that "the filing of a complaint often leads to the filing of more complaints—counter-complaints and complaints about the complaints process." The immanence of complaints—complaints are made in situations that complaints are about—could be well described as a crash site: to complain is to collide into other complaints. Another way of saying this: some complaints get uptake; others do not.

diversity management" becomes a way of managing or containing conflict or dissent.

When violence gets in, a complaint comes out.

Maybe it was me. Maybe I wanted to hate him because I'm in love with his wife, and if that's the case, what kind of man does that make me?

world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik

His mother was exacting revenge because he'd dared to marry me, and his father—well, we weren't exactly sure. Either

Do you think anyone in the history of this world ever set out to fight for the wrong side?

This war that is coming—are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax

what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.

If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. - Rolly

which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot. No, Delia said, over her shoulder. Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach. Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. Stomp them. she said, under her breath. Really

It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it's sometimes even harder to let it out.

Being nice was the ideal, the one place where people didn't get loud, or so quiet they could scare you. If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.