Quotes About Conflict

Over the last few decades we've been close to an all-out conflict between Christianity and Islam. If you take a long view, it's absurd; both religions have deep common roots, and both are basically creeds of peace.

Nothing I have seen here in New Eden or on Earth suggests to me that humanity is capable of achieving harmony in its relationship with itself, much less with any other living creatures.

The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.

That conflict: Technology as it develops is a prayer… but prayer is by definition a subversion of reason. There is no Loophole there.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.

Pero el amor es una cosa emocional y todo lo que es emocional se opone a ese frío razonamiento que me parece la cualidad más importante del hombre y que antepongo a lo demás

What, my friends, is the conquest of one nation by another? It is meaningless. Each produces the same result. But those fierce fights, when in the dawn of the ages the cave-dwellers held their own against the tier folk, or the elephants first found that they had a master, those were the real conquests - the victories that count.

No man ever crossed me and was the better for it. So many have said so, and yet here I am, said Holmes, smiling.

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

Las cuestiones emocionales son enemigas del razonamiento claro.

La cosa estaba entre ser Cazador Oscuro o profeta. Personalmente, me gusta mucho más lo de luchar y matar que lo de rezar en la posición del loto.

He only felt a traitorous part of his body that wanted to be connected to her. But he knew better than to listen to that part of himself. It had a mind of its own that could get him into all kinds of nightmares if he let it.

Time had a grudge against her.' – Evalle

Not your fight, Jack. (Steele) That never stopped me before. Uncle Cam never cared if I had an issue with someone or not before they had me take their head off. (Jack)

We can accommodate Mr. Delgado as well. (LaCrosse) 'He'd agreed with polite grace, but he wasn't particularly happy. Someone had him by the short hairs and was braiding them.' (Carlos)

Come in peace or leave in pieces

The demon in me that knows there's a demon in you who can mop the floor with my raunchy butt tells me to say yes. I care. Deeply. (Ren)

I don't want to hurt you, Dar. Either get out of my way or I'm going through you. Xev

I always knew you were hiding something from me. I was just never sure what. Funny, I used to think it was another woman you loved, not a lunatic brother. Catherine says to Micheal.

But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.

It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.

War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.