Quotes About Conflict

literally designed to keep us trapped in a constant state of conflict, suspense, and panic: social technology.

It's been going on for days now! On and on and on for days! If I hear one more sexual-chemistry-charged and mutually misunderstood argument I'm going to shoot the pair of you!

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

The key to really learning how to deal with difficult people is to understand that it is OK to not understand why they are the way they are.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

will probably fall apart while they try to decide who's going to care of business in his absence.

The character of the older flats battling against the utilitarian nature of the contemporary ones.

blaming the Republicans for everything, Republicans are blaming the Democrats and nobody seems to want to take responsibility for anything.

Dialogue with an AK47 always ends the same way. The AK47 is always right.

If these wars between Caesar and Pompey are "worse than civil," it is because they were fought between two men who had been bound by marriage pact; in that sense, they were familial wars ("kin facing kin"), not merely between citizens.

Rome's earliest dissension arose from flawed human nature and its desires for freedom, glory, and power, but it was only after the fall of Carthage that such evils flourished to the point of driving plebeians and patricians into open conflict: "The way was clear for pursuing rivalries, [and] there arose a great many riots, insurrections, and in the end, civil wars."43

For many Romans, civil war remained the war that dared not speak its name. The words bellum civile had to be weighed carefully and spoken sparingly, if ever at all, because of the harsh memories of major conflicts.

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

If the way we handle our money conflicts with our personal values, we are not going to wind up living happy and fulfilled lives.

Love has nothing to do with money. It doesn't matter if you love your spouse or partner more than anything in the world. If the two of you have conflicting values about money and make financial decisions that fail to accommodate each other's feelings about the subject, you are going to have serious relationship problems.

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The embedded journalists are talking about the suffering of the marines, who are so hot and are being fired on all the time.

To a large extent, that's the way empires work. Internal class war is a significant element of empire.

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

Half circus and half Supreme Court.

She was right. Peace was the way. She was right. But at the wrong time.