Quotes About Conflict

Do you promise? He demanded again. I can't let you go, Alek. She said softly. You...what?

If Chizara was agreeing with Ethan, things were bad.

I wonder if she ever wants to trade lives with me, if only for the chance to punch something.

Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms. "Deryn" he sobbed. Anything but this.

A country with two kings will always falter.

The war will end one day. Wars always do.

When a single nation's armies are ordered against each other, all is lost.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeanette Rankin

Civilians, not insurgents, were the principal victims of this war; the poor who lived in rural areas were especially hard hit. Little attempt was made by the government to address the structural injustice that was the cause of the conflict. What reforms they attempted were secondary to the massive repression of the people.

But the days when the people could demonstrate peacefully were over. El Salvador was on the eve of civil war, and Romero did everything he could to prevent it.

Romero is a prophet, saint, and martyr for our time. His death, like that of Jesus of Nazareth, was the dramatic conclusion of a life lived in fidelity to God that brought him into conflict with the political authorities of his nation.

Romero's assassination in 1980 drew attention to another phenomenon of the conflict: the persecution of the church. Nine months after Romero's assassination, the Salvadoran National Guard killed three North American nuns and one laywoman. Between 1977 and 1989, a dozen and a half priests were killed, including six Jesuits assassinated along with their housekeeper and her daughter on November 16, 1989.

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Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

The partition between love and anger is thin. I suppose it's a need to protect the self from further wounding that makes people scream at the one they love.

No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor.

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

The Turks moved in the next day and killed everyone in sight, including the staff of the nursing home.

Civilians balk at recognizing that one of the most traumatic things about combat is having to give it up. War is so obviously evil and wrong that the idea there could be anything good to it almost feels like a profanity.

Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples.

It's hard to know how to live for a country that regularly tears itself apart along every possible ethnic and demographic boundary.

Gang shootings—as indiscriminate as they often are—still don't have the nihilistic intent of rampages. Rather, they are rooted in an exceedingly strong sense of group loyalty and revenge, and bystanders sometimes get killed in the process.

What I liked about the encounter was that it showed how very close the energy of male conflict and male closeness can be. It's almost as if they are two facets of the same quality; just change a few details and instead of heading toward collision, the men head toward unity. There seemed to be a great human potential out there, organized around the idea of belonging, and the trick was to convince people that their interests had more in common than they had in conflict.

If war were purely and absolutely bad in every single aspect and toxic in all its effects, it would probably not happen as often as it does. But in addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly intoxicating to the people who experience them.