Quotes About Conflict

That there have been wars I have no doubt. I believe that plague was a great sign to us, and we refused to see it and take its meaning, and since then we have had war continuously.

often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

Giant miseries and giant hopes can carry on their wars in the merest cranny.

Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testifies to a structural and endemic conflict in society that was political and social as well as personal, producing many, many instances of similar violence.

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature

Jack Woltz: Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch, let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is! Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork! Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish. Jack Woltz: Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend, I'm gonna make so much trouble for you, you won t know what hit you! Tom Hagen: Mr. Woltz, I'm a lawyer. I have not threatened you.

What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.

That night a bomb exploded in the Corleone Family mall in Long Beach, thrown from a car that pulled up to the chain, then roared away. That night also two button men of the Corleone Family were killed as they peaceably ate their dinner in a small Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. The Five Families War of 1946 had begun.

No profieras amenaza alguna. Razona con la gente.» El arte del razonamiento consistía en desoír todos los insultos, todas las amenazas; algo así como poner la otra mejilla.

Nunca se aborreça — Don Corleone o havia instruído. — Nunca faça uma ameaça. Argumente com as pessoas.

Don Tommasino also controlled the water rights in the area and vetoed the local building of any new dams by the Roman government. Such dams would ruin the lucrative business of selling water from the artesian wells he controlled, make water too cheap, ruin the whole important water economy so laboriously built up over hundreds of years.

These things have to happen once every ten years or so. It gets rid of the bad blood. And then if we let them push us around on the little things they wanta take over everything. You gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they were just asking for big trouble when they let him get away with that." Michael

going to the mattresses

Don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again.

What manner of men are we then, if we do not have our reason," he said. "We are all no better than beasts in a jungle if that were the case. But we have reason, we can reason with each other and we can reason with ourselves. To what purpose would I start all these troubles again, the violence and the turmoil?

You hang around me, Mike," he said, "you're gonna hear things you don't wanta hear." Michael lit a cigarette. "I can help out," he said. "No, you can't," Sonny said. "The old man would be sore as hell if I let you get mixed up in this.

Michael stood up and yelled, "You lousy bastard, he's my father. I'm not supposed to help him? I can help. I don't have to go out and kill people but I can help. Stop treating me like a kid brother.

My friend," he said, "people like you and me meet face to face and kill each other. Our enemies are behind us." He let his hand fall. "Our enemies are behind us," he repeated bitterly, "and commit the crimes for which we die.

Soñaba toda la semana con la salida, pero apenas entraba a su casa se sentía irritado: la abrumadora obsequiosidad de su madre era tan mortificante como el encierro.

En Cierto modo, tenía derecho; todos en el colegio respetaban la venganza.

Volgens hem was de Peruaanse samenleving een broeinest van spanningen, haatgevoelens, rancune en vooroordelen, die zich in twaalf jaar militaire regering alleen maar hadden versterkt. 'Je zou je land niet meer herkennen, neef. Er hangt een dreiging in de lucht, je hebt het gevoel dat er elk moment iets heel ernstigs tot uitbarsting kan komen.