Quotes About Conflict

Everybody in the South seemed to want the privilege of whipping somebody else.

America will not allow her children to love her. She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies.

I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant, but may my "right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.

For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people whose fury had so exceeded their judgment that the only thing they could think of to do to express their discontent was to kill somebody.

America's intervention, Halberstam said on a later occasion, occurred "in the embers of another colonial war.

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

O que sempre tem feito do Estado um inferno na terra tem sido precisamente procurar o homem fazer dele o seu paraíso.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!

Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'!

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Alas, the magic of these battles is that whoever looks at them must also fight them.

Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.

My paradise is in the shadow of my sword.

This is precisely why the Jews are the most disastrous people in world history: they have left such a falsified humanity in their wake that even today Christians can think of themselves as anti-Jewish without understanding that they are the ultimate conclusion of Judaism.

It is the stillest words which bring the storm.

And indeed, just think: in many ways, body and soul, I have been more a battlefield than a human being.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.