Quotes About Conflict

Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at the soul like a fire about to engulf an entire forest.

Even now he could not say in his heart of hearts for which side he would draw his blade when he was finally called upon. What was a child of two worlds to do?

But how can an ordinary girl not know this? Had Varana's mother not bothered to teach her anything at all or just shouted complaints from a distance while her children fought and argued amongst themselves like wolf cubs?

But Palestine was derived from the name "Philistine," the people who were constantly at war with the ancient Israelites.

The fog of war hinders the enemy, and so let us leave him with it rather than dispel it.

The courage, the will, the guts, to fight the British, even if they end up here, like you, in Cyprus. I don't know any other place in the world where this is happening.

Of all the Arabs who encircled Israel, the Syrians were the most vicious.

Looking down, the Israeli pilots could tell their troops from the Egyptians' when they saw ice-cream trucks, hot-dog vans, and laundry wagons navigating the desert.

The Holy Land became a police state. The British brought in more troops, until there were one hundred thousand soldiers. Some of the Black and Tan policemen, who had once suppressed the Irish, were sent to Palestine to keep order.

Repression begat violence. Violence and terror begat more repression.

Meanwhile, the mufti and his followers sat back, watching the war between Britain and the Jews with satisfaction.

Intense conflict is an invitation to turn to God, who wants to lead us forward into restored relationships and into new organizational processes. JAN WOOD, LON FENDALL AND BRUCE BISHOP, PRACTICING DISCERNMENT TOGETHER

being angry is not the same thing as being called.

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How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Andy didn't know Blake before he heard the rumor about the gun. As the janitor's son, Andy has his own problems with nasty rumors

Interestingly, some of the worst anti-Irish discrimination came from the Scotch-Irish, who wanted to make clear that they were a different group from the impoverished newcomers.

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question in "Dude, why are we even fighting in the first place?

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question is "Dude, why are we even fighting in the first place?

A good will with an evil will equals an explosion.

Altercations, fights, wars, only begin because something unjust has transpired.

The NATO alliance is a terminal illness to the world and all of it's members are corrupt.

War: In every war there's victims and murderers, or murderers and murderers. Either way it go's nobody wins in a war, everybody loses in a war. The victims lose their lives and the murderers lose their innocence.