Quotes About Conflict

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek.

There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.

The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

The intellectuals have never been on the side of the workers. Sometimes they've let on to be, but only for purposes of betrayal.

I am everyone's friend,' I said. 'Except to my enemies.

Hapisteki ÅŸairin dediÄŸi gibi, her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de. (syf. 100)

Violence makes violence

The millicents (The police) now got down to making this long statement for me to sign, and I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.

One can almost always achieve surprise in war by suddenly doing something that is truly stupid, but surprise alone is scarcely victory.

Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort.

In books, you love somebody and want them, win them or lose them. In real life, so often, you love them and don't want them, or want them and don't love them.

One always imagines things happen in hot blood,' he said. 'An ill-considered remark starts a row. Hard words follow, misunderstandings. Matters that can be put right in the end. Unfortunately life doesn't work out like that. First of all there is no row, secondly, nothing can be put right.

It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.

When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards, as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.

Albert's shutters may have kept out the suffragettes: they did not effectively exclude the Furies.

Like most people in rebellion, he was more than half in love with what he was rebelling against.

The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.

To hold a friend in the background at a certain stage of a love affair is a technique some men like to employ; a method which spreads, as it were, the emotional load, ameliorating risks of dual conflict between the lovers themselves, although at the same time posing a certain hazard in the undue proximity of a third party unencumbered with emotional responsibility – and therefore almost always seen to better advantage than the lover himself.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. —UPTON SINCLAIR

The problem is that the managers of the mutual funds make more money when they gather huge piles of assets and charge high fees. The high fees are in direct conflict with the goal of producing high returns. And so what happens over and over again is the profits win and the investor seeking returns loses. There