Quotes About Conflict

However it is defined, freedom is due, in part, to the fact that powerful nations do not always win wars and powerful men do not always win fights.

the 1,323 soldiers who were wounded in that war and

Hierarchical male groups are good at mustering on the street and running into gunfire--another important task--but terrible at creating alliances.

A young couple who love each other but who can't be together as they long to be because someone is preventing it.4

The tragic history of Spanish America was ready to be written . . . in blood.

No point in arguing. But of course I argued.

It's war that makes generals

Everyone has a little voice inside of their head that's angry and afraid.

It's human nature to be weird, but also human to be lonely. This conflict between fitting in and standing out is at the core of who we are.

Empathy is at the heart of marketing People don't believe what you believe. They don't know what you know. They don't want what you want. It's true, but we'd rather not accept this. Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours. Everyone has noise in their heads.

The same way soldiers realize that it's war that makes generals

If you try to steal the giant's lunch, the giant is likely to eat you for lunch.

People are linked together by enmity than by love.

Levantó el pie. Le dolía con un dolor sordo, pesado... Esto era más que una fórmula. Él, en este momento, estaba a punto de pisotear lo más bello que había soñado en su vida, lo que había creído más puro, lo que llenaba el ideal y los sueños de los hombres...

Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.

Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art.

come not between the dragon and his wrath

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

I hate it here. I hate everyone here. I hate that I am so different. I love it here and I want to belong and I know that I never will.

I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating.

to behave as our parents do—to cherish what they cherish and believe what they believe. And for a while, that's as it should be. But as adults, sometimes we have our own desires, our own hopes, that are at odds with how our parents view the world.