Quotes About Conflict

It was a dispute of such gravity—linguists and philologists were known to be mercurial and hold eternal grudges—that

The clash between those who built fortresses and those who drove wagons or sailed ships was a central part of early human life—

Soon so many tens of thousands of pioneers were going, so long were the trains of wagons, that perplexed Indians in Wyoming said they might themselves head off to the East, believing it to be fast emptying of all white people.

The remains of sixty thousand young seamen now lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. More men had died there in the five years of the Second World War than in all of the conflicts in the ocean since the first Romans had set out on their invading expeditions nearly two thousand years before.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

The truth is, however, that when two individuals detest each other, while being unable to get along without each other, it is not of all human relations the truest and most moving, but rather the most pitiable.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

If you point out that they're walking in shit they scream it's you that have dirty feet.

It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.

They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.

If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.

All oppression creates a state of war.

What a relief! It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Cada sexo cree justificarse tomando la ofensiva: pero los entuertos de uno no absuelven al otro.

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

If the question of women is so trivial, it is because masculine arrogance turned it into a quarrel; when people quarrel, they no longer reason well.

Las mujeres no son solidarias como sexo: ante todo están ligadas a su clase; los intereses de las burguesas y los de las mujeres proletarias no coinciden.

C'est si fatigant de détester quelqu'un qu'on aime.

And she antagonized me by preferring the force of authority to friendliness.

Hay que añadir que los hombres más respetuosos con al vida embrionaria son también lo que más prontos se muestran cuando se trata de condenar adultos a una muerte militar.

History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.

No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt.