Quotes About Conflict

Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

Touch her," he said in Scott's ear, his voice low and threatening, "and it'll be the biggest regret of your life.

If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

that good people fought valiantly for disgraceful causes. . . . But by joining the Confederate war machine, all of them, irrespective of their personal motivations, advanced their nation's political agenda—the perpetuation and territorial expansion of human bondage and the misery that it entailed."9

Although Meade's Army of the Potomac, under the personal direction of Grant, did suffer high casualties (41 percent) during its drive to the James River, it imposed even higher casualties on Lee's army (46 percent). In

Their decision to keep above the fray made sense. Franklin and Washington were thin-skinned and recoiled from ad hominem attacks. Neither was particularly adept at defending a proposal in a contentious up-or-down vote, especially a proposition they helped to craft. Franklin might begin fiddling with the text and Washington might lose his temper.

Education is the vaccine for violence.