Quotes About Conflict

What was "violence" out there is "potential" in here...

The young man rushed toward them. "Stand and fight!" he was shouting. "Is running away the Yoshioka version of the Art of War? I personally don't want to kill you, but my Drying Pole's still thirsty. The least you can do, cowards that you are, is leave your heads behind.

Their disagreements were often like this, beginning with a violent clash of emotions, a locking of horns in implacable antagonism. Mutual understanding was undermined before it ever had a chance to grow.

The written word for the trouble is two women beneath one rooftree, and I greatly fear that the wise man who invented writing had knowledge that cost him dear. Perhaps he, too, had a daughter-in-law.

heroes exterminated each other for the benefit of other people who were not heroes.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

You never knew what shape your enemies would take." from the book -- Black Gold of the Sun

That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikes me as a bit odd and the next thing I know all hell breaks loose.

Being so eager to please, we're not easy to liberate. We're too aware of what others need. Yet our intuition also picks up on the inner question that must be answered. These two strong, conflicting currents may buffet us for years. Don't worry if your progress toward liberation is slow, for it's almost inevitable.

How like the opposition I described in the last chapter between the warrior-king class and the royal-advisor class.

Couples in the better relationships understand the perpetual problems differently; they dialogue about them rather than fighting over them.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings.

Isn't that petty?" "Anna, you have not yet seen pettiness. When a couple of tough guys like the general and Lugala Tsu decide to confront each other, vistas of pettiness open up that you and I can barely comprehend.

It is impossible to explain anything to those who are both angry and terrified.