Quotes About Conflict

Oh, it's so hard, the eternal struggle between heart and mind. There's a time and a place for both, but how can I be sure that I've chosen the right time?

All those Dutch people who still look down on the British, scoff at England and its government of aging lords, call the English cowards, yet hate the Germans, should be given a good shaking, the way you'd plump up a pillow. Maybe that would straighten out their jumbled brains!

war's greatest evil—the degradation of the human spirit.

All these preparations require explanations to various people who we feel ought to be kept in the dark. Miep went to ask if Dr. Dussel couldn't manage to come on Saturday after all, but he said no, and now he's scheduled to arrive on Monday. I think it's odd that he doesn't jump at our proposal. If they pick him up on the street, it won't help either his records or his patients, so why the delay? If you ask me, it's stupid of Father to humor him.

Really, it's not easy being the badly brought-up center of attention of a family of nitpickers.

Non impari a conoscer la gente se non quando ci hai ben litigato insieme. Soltanto allora ne puoi giudicare il carattere

Man lernt die Menschen erst gut kennen, wenn man einmal richtigen Streit mit ihnen gehabt hat. Erst dann kann man ihren Charakter beurteilen!

The house shook and the bombs kept falling. I was clutching my "escape bag," more because I wanted to have something to hold on to than because I wanted to run away.

De todos modos no hay enemistad más grande en el mundo que entre los alemanes y los judíos.

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

Peleándose abiertamente una buena vez es como se aprende a conocerse a fondo. ¡Es entonces cuando en realidad puede juzgarse un carácter!

Things are going well on the political front. Italy has banned the Fascist Party. The people are fighting the Fascists in many places—even the army has joined the fight. How can a country like that continue to wage war against England?

My parents are much too afraid of an argument to say anything, which is a shame, because I think people like that should always be given a taste of their own medicine.

I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

Esta mañana mamá me ha vuelto a soltar un soberano sermón. Nuestras opiniones son diametralmente opuestas. Papá es un cielo, aunque a veces se enfada conmigo durante cinco minutos.

Man lernt die Menschen erst gut kennen, wenn man einmal richtigen Streit mit ihnen gehabt hat. Erst dann kann man ihren Charakter beurteilen. (S.58)

No amor e na guerra vale tudo.

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

Hope for an end to war, hope for peace.

Family can hurt you much more than outsiders can.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Now, if you ask me, what's going on is that we're all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.