Quotes About Conflict

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

You can't change human nature. Men are always going to kick fuck out of each other then go off and shaft some bird. That's life.

How many of those bastards lost people on D-day? Politicians start wars but they don't fight them. They cause the trouble and sign the forms and hide when the bombers come. How many of them suffered like I did? Answer me that.

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

within this Realme, during the tyme of this terrible conflict that hes bene betuix the sanctes of God and these bloody wolves who clame to thame selves the titill of clargie, and to have authoritie ower the saules of men; for, with the Pollicey

ozurie feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have.

But blaming Islam is a simple answer, easier and less controversial than re-examining the core political issues and grievances that resonate in much of the Muslim world: the failures of many Muslim governments and societies, some aspects of U.S. foreign policy representing intervention and dominance, Western support for authoritarian regimes, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, or support for Israel's military battles with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. (p. 136-137)

My grandpappy used to say that people who loved each other fought in order to avoid intimacy.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Damn, I love you, but this is crazy, I have to fight you almost daily, We break up so fast, And we, we make up so passionately, Why can't we just trust each? You can't hate me and be my lover, Passion ends, and pains begins, I come back...

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Lescroart

The Wars of the Roses weren't called that. Sir Walter Scott invented the name four centuries after the conflict.

To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end, where there is no authority to decide between the contenders) is one great reason of men's putting themselves into society, and quitting the state of nature: for where there is an authority, a power on earth, from which relief can be had by appeal, there the continuance of the state of war is excluded, and the controversy is decided by that power.

the state of war once begun, continues with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace

Of that duality that makes us who we are, he is wholly evil. Duality? We are all two things in a way, are we not? Deep in the marrow. Angel and devil. Light and dark. The pull between the two is the active verb which energizes our lives.

A day with out food,is a day with out war.

The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.

One of these photos stuck in my mind—that of elegant upper-class Parisians returning to the French capital after their armies had crushed the Paris Commune during Bloody Week (May 21–28, 1871). They applauded the terror organized by the French state, which had crushed Parisians aspiring to freedom.