Quotes About Conflict

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry,The subject of it is War, and the pity of War.The Poetry is in the pity.All a poet can do is warn.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

I am the enemy you killed, my friend.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

The socially irresponsible man is the man absorbed in sexual conflicts.

When social cooperation is disrupted, state power is always strengthened.

A angústia é o equivalente negativo da excitação sexual; ao mesmo tempo, é equivalente a ela em termos de energia.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Dawes showed that marital stability is well predicted by a formula: frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels

avoiding the thought of white bears inhibiting the emotional response to a stirring film making a series of choices that involve conflict trying to impress others responding kindly to a partner's bad behavior interacting with a person of a different race (for prejudiced individuals)

probably contributes to an explanation of why people litigate, why they start wars, and why they open small businesses.

In a memorable example, Dawes showed that marital stability is well predicted by a formula: frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels You don't want your result to be a negative number.

The list of situations and tasks that are now known to deplete self-control is long and varied. All involve conflict and the need to suppress a natural tendency. They include:

Differences between experts and the public are explained in part by biases in lay judgments, but Slovic draws attention to situations in which the differences reflect a genuine conflict of values.

Sen mä vaan sanon, että jollei meikä olis näin rauhallinen tyyppi, niin siis joskus tosissaan pumppu haulikko, helvetti irti, niska laukaus ja murha poltto, ja täyttä häkää sittekki.

We have our own personal demons to deal with.

war. A balanced peace is a poor fertilizer for promotion.

I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.

There are many ways to lose your relatives, I thought; war is only one of them.

real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

D. T. Suzuki, the eminent scholar of Zen Buddhism, one day made this sarcastic comment on the Christian tradition to his friends, American mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychoanalyst Carl Jung: "Nature against Man, Man against Nature; God against Man, Man against God; God against Nature, Nature against God; very funny religion!