Quotes About Conflict

He'd kill Newt. He'd shot his own friend in the head.

Mark wants to scream, to tell her not to do it. But it's too late. The woman pulls the trigger. The boat drives on.

you slinthead shuck-faced piece of klunk.

James Dashner

MÁTAME. SI ALGUNA VEZ HAS SIDO MI AMIGO, MÁTAME.

And then Thomas was being dragged to his feet, yanked away from her. He didn't have the energy or will to fight it. She was gone.

dark boy yelled.

Gally," Minho said in a calmer voice, "you're nothing but a sissy who has never, not once, asked to be a Runner or tried out for it. You don't have the right to talk about things you don't understand. So shut your mouth.

His insides burned with turmoil, but he put it all away because there was nothing else to do.

His friend threw another couple of punches for good measure, then stood up, giving his guy one last kick. "I'm done. We can go.

One of these days we need to get Weber locked in a room with some nice torture devices. I'm ready to go medieval on her.

Minho laughed, then raised the palm of his hand and shoved Gally in the face. Thomas half stood as he watched the Glader crash down into his chair, tipping it over backward, cracking it in two pieces. Gally sprawled across the floor, then scrambled to stand up, struggling to get his hands and feet under him. Minho stepped closer and stomped the bottom of his foot down on Gally's back, driving his body flat to the ground.

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

You're tearing me apart!

Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

It is apparent that prisoners of war are among the most vulnerable of people. Not only are they completely under the control of their captors, but in a time of conflict, the hatred and brutality of the battlefield are very likely to be mirrored within military prison walls.

Ladies and gentlemen: War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians.

An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Unloving attitudes and words cause a "stench that the world can smell. . . . Our sharp tongues, the lack of love between us . . . these are what properly trouble the world."17