Quotes About Conflict

But at times, as if a drug had flooder her veins, Lila seemed unable to bear the order she had imposed on herself.

Pareva che la città covasse nelle viscere una furia che non riusciva a venir fuori e perciò la erodeva, o erompeva in pustole di superficie, gonfie di veleno contro tutti, bambini, adulti, vecchi, gente di altre città, americani della Nato, turisti d'ogni nazionalità, gli stessi napoletani.

Don't get angry, she said, try to reflect: what does a woman of your understanding feel at the idea that her happiness becomes the ruin of someone else?

Soon she'll start yelling, I thought, soon she'll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.

Cuánto me agotaba nuestra relación, y cuántas insidias se escondían en cada gesto, en cada frase que pronunciaba yo, que pronunciaba él.

I had too many worries and, whatever I did, the feeling of always being in the wrong.

Ich liebte sie beide, daher gelang es mir nicht, mich selbst zu lieben, mich zu spüren, mich mit meinem Bedürfnis nach Leben zu behaupten, das die gleiche blinde und taube Kraft hatte wie ihres. So kam es mir vor.

Ma adesso era chiaro, lei aveva ragione e io torto. Nino non fuggiva affatto da suo padre per paura di diventare come lui, Nino era già suo padre e non voleva ammetterlo.

We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.

Puoi copiarmi, farmi il ritratto preciso come fanno gli artisti, ma la mia merda resterà sempre la mia, e la tua la tua. Ah, Lenù, che ci succede a tutti quanti, siamo come i tubi quando l'acqua gela, che brutta cosa è la testa scontenta.

I was stunned. Fernando looked out, still screaming horrible threats at his daughter. He had thrown her like a thing.

Luchaba entre varias memorias y la memoria de lo sucedido era la única irreal para él.

Uno empieza a saber lo que es un gobierno, se da cuenta de lo que es, cuando este gobierno lanza los tanques a la calle. •Alfonso Salinas Moya, de la Escuela de Odontología de la UNAM

Qué poca cosa, qué inferior se habrá sentido el presidente de México ante la voz de los estudiantes, para acallarla con las armas!

the ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

This isn't the Palestinian flag. Palestine isn't a country for it to have a flag. Palestine is a condition. Every Arab is a Palestinian. Every poor man who carries a gun is a Palestinian. Palestine is the condition of us all.

What even differentiated a great and honorable war, where you were trying to secure some land by murdering people, from a shameful genocide, where you were trying to secure some land by murdering people?)

How confident the other people in the class seemed to be in the rights that had been conferred on them by being there first—which was really only a matter of luck, because their aunts hadn't happened to call just then. Where, exactly, did they want me to go? Did they want me to just not exist? Was that how the Israelis and Palestinians felt about each other?

A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.

For some soldiers, there's a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.

There are two ways to die here,' the fighter concluded. 'You can die doing the right thing for the wrong reason, or die doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

Men and women who venture to someone else's war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It's just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise. I