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Quotes About Conflict

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
~ E. Lockhart
We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
~ Ed Koch
War can't give life, it can only take it away.
~ Edwin Starr
There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
~ Erica Jong
In life, the worst disasters come from passion.
~ Euripides
At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
~ Florence Nightingale
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
~ Frank McCourt
I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.
~ Frederick Lenz
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
~ May Sarton
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.
~ Midge Ure
I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.
~ Missi Pyle
The high point of your life was when you knocked me down
~ Nancy Farmer
The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.
~ Nelson Mandela
Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe.
~ Paulo Coelho
A Warrior of the Light does not accept gifts from his enemy.
~ Paulo Coelho
A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Warrior sometimes fights with those he loves.
~ Paulo Coelho
Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.
~ Paulo Coelho
A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.
~ Paulo Coelho
Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
~ Phil Collins
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
~ Philip Pullman