Quotes About Conflict

I understand the very definition of hate when I think of you.

I think to be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

El conflicto estalla entre la moral del artista y la moral de la sociedad, no entre la estética y la moral. Pero a menudo esto no es comprendido; y entonces aparece la pérdida, la tragedia. Un artista que roba pinturas de una tienda, por ejemplo, se imagina haber tomado una decisión inevitable pero inmortal y luego se ve a sí mismo como caído en desgracia

The entire history of evil in this world is related to what human beings do to one another in order to survive.

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality.

What race can live with any other? What religion with any other? War is worldwide; and the wars are tribal, no matter what men say they are! They are tribal, and they are wars of extermination, whether it be the Arabs against the Kurds, or the Turks and the Europeans, or the Russian fighting the Oriental. It's never going to stop. People dream that it will, but it can't, as long as there are people.

I hate you as much as I have ever loved you.

Did I love this child too much to do what I planned to do?

The Empire was the world. All that lay beyond was chaos and misery and struggle and strife. I was a soldier. I could fight.

The memories inside him tormented him like a cancer, yet he could not see them and know them for what they were.

I wanted this child-this boy who was now two years older than when I'd found him-and yet I wanted everything else for him, and my soul was torn, just as my heart was torn.

Don't fight with Mael. What could be the outcome, but two wounded creatures hating each other even more than now?

each being wars with his own angels and devils, each being succumbs to an essential set of values, a theme, as it were, which is inseparable from living a proper life.

You know, we could play a game. We meet and I start talking, and slap damn, you kill me when I take a verbal turn you don't like.

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But

I wish I could say no. On this night of all nights, I wish I could say no.

Don't you understand that men will never do more than dream of peace?

She would turn to the Catholic Church to destroy the thing, she said, 'to the power of Christ, and His Holy Mother, and the saints.' We fought a terrible battle of words. I cried out: 'Don't you see that that is nothing but another form of witchcraft?

The split in him was between the monastery with its ikons and its penance on the one hand, and his father, the robust hunter who had dragged him away from the monastery that fatal day.

I don't know which causes me the greater pain-the loss of my goddess, or my hatred of Santino.

To witness the degree to which victorious nations simplified and cheapened the narratives of their rivals?

How can this magnificent modern world enter into war? How can these modern people who know so much, who've come so far, suddenly be on the attack against one another?

It was what Trinity was all about: training you to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern.

We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them.