Quotes About Conflict

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

La vie psychique est un champ de bataille et une arène où luttent des tendances opposées

Vicdan?n talepleriyle Ben'in yetenekleri aras?ndaki gerilim, 'suçluluk duygusu' olarak alg?lan?r. Toplumsal duygular da, diÄŸer duygularla özdeÅŸ biçimde Ben-ülküsü temeline dayan?rlar." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 67

DüÅŸmanl???n hiçbir doyum ihtimali yoktur, bu yüzden – yani ekonomik nedenlerden ötürü – daha fazla doyum, yani boÅŸal?m olana?? sunan sevgi yakla??m?yla yer deÄŸiÅŸtirir." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 77

Thus we may perhaps be forced to become reconciled to the idea that it is quite impossible to adjust the claims of the sexual instinct to the demands of civilization; that in consequence of its cultural development renunciation and suffering, as well as the danger of extinction in the remotest future, cannot be avoided by the human race.

la civilización todavía no ha sido capaz de difundirse en las almas de la mayoría de los hombres sin una acumulación explosiva de energías destructoras.

The process of repression had attacked almost all the components of his Oedipus complex—both his hostile and his tender impulses towards his father and his tender impulses towards his mother.

We should be quite wrong if we pictured the ego and the id as two opposing camps and if we supposed that, when the ego tries to suppress a part of the id by means of repression, the remainder of the id comes to the rescue of the endangered part and measures its strength with the ego. This may often be what happens, but it is certainly not the initial situation in repression. As a rule the instinctual impulse which is to be repressed remains isolated.

Mit Sicherheit weiß ich nur das eine, daß die Werturteile der Menschen unbedingt von ihren Glückswünschen geleitet werden, also ein Versuch sind, ihre Illusionen mit Argumenten zu stützen. Die Schicksalsfrage der Menschenart scheint mir zu sein, ob und in welchem Maße es ihrer Kulturentwicklung gelingen wird, der Störung des Zusammenlebens durch den menschlichen Aggressions- und Selbstvernichtungstrieb Herr zu werden.

In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists.

They who have loved one another with the fieriest desire come in the end to be as two vipers biting each other's tails.

I wot well you are more more godly in such-like things that I can ever be—yet, Kristin, 'tis hard for me to see how it should be a right reading of God's word to go on, as your way is, ever storing up wrath and never forgetting.

As I left the Dayaks I felt torn. They had been endlessly welcoming to me, but they were also openly admitting involvement in, and responsibility for, mass killing. It reinforced what I had found during the previous decade, when I had been investigating terrorism, arms smuggling and organised crime, which was that situations are rarely clear-cut, hardly ever black and white, and good people can do bad things, while bad people can definitely do good. Humans are just so damn complicated.

I was reminded of an African proverb: when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

Die Armee ist ein zu gefährlicher Ort für Theaterkritiker. - Macro

The Almoravids yielded to the madder fury of the Almohades and the days of worldly accommodation in Al-Andalus passed for good.

me parece que gran parte de la ira que fue el detonante de la violencia revolucionaria se originó en la hostilidad hacia la modernización, más que en la impaciencia provocada por la rapidez de sus avances.

the First World War was the chemists' war, because mustard gas and chlorine were employed for the first time

Second World War was the physicists' war, because the atom bomb was detonated.

Po první svÄ›tové válce se Spojenci nebáli nikoho.

You can't win because of the guns, said Adam with a sigh. Machine guns, mortars, field guns, howitzers: it doesn't matter how much courage soldiers have, how much will; flesh and blood can't pass through bullets and shells, or at least not in sufficient numbers to have any effect. The guns win in the end and they always will. Not us, not the Germans - the guns.

He needed to stop being angry, he realized. It wasn't Sir John's fault that he didn't understand the war—it was impossible to understand it unless you went there and saw it and heard it and smelt it for yourself, and even that might not be enough if you were just a visitor, a tourist able to return home when you felt you'd had enough…

It seemed sometimes as if he was two different people, one a product of his background and class and the other the person he might have been if he had been born outside of their confines.

Siempre habrá personas con un punto de vista distinto. En mi país tenemos demócratas y republicanos. Aquí vosotros tenéis nazis y antinazis. Eso es lo que hace que el mundo no se pare.