Quotes About Conflict

But go argue with an ignoramus. I'm referring to my own brother, Henikh, may God not punish me for these words.

I'm her friend. What have I got against her? But on the other hand, she didn't do right by me.

But once—and whenever you hear but once, you know trouble's coming—something happened.

Second, I wish all my enemies would burst from the bellyful your last letter gave me.

All the bakers had banded together. They said he had to take back the workers he had fired and meet all three of their demands: (1) A ruble raise; (2) Sleeping-at-home rights; (3) No more knocking out teeth. It

I tell you, my husband, I've put up with as much as I can. Either you get yourself home in a jiffy and act like a human being—or else! As I wish my enemies an early death, so I am from the bottom of my heart, Your truly faithful wife

love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

No, I'm saying those Yankees are messing things up again. No respectable Southern woman would ever say a girl was Rosewell's 'power mower.' For heaven's sake. That's ridiculous. But those Yankees have tin ears. On language alone we should have won the war." She looked at us. "The woman called that floozy his paramour. But some Yankee messed it up. Paramour. Power mower. You hear the difference?" Wally glanced at me. She was

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Hostility comes in all ages, sizes and shapes

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id , a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).

Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?

The scope of one's personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.

We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to infer that melancholia is the model of this group, and then we should put in a claim for the name of narcissistic psychoneuroses for these disorders.

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.

El primer humano que insultó a su enemigo en vez de tirarle una piedra fue el fundador de la civilización

the renunciation of aggression is inherent in its constitution.

Nuestra alma no es una unidad pacífica, autorregulada. Ella es, antes bien, comparable a un Estado moderno, en el que una chusma ansiosa de placer y de destrucción tiene que ser sojuzgada por una clase superior y más juiciosa

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.