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Quotes About Conflict

Now he'll tear himself from his native earth, not linger, curse the house with his own curse.
~ Sophocles
Careful! There is war in women too, as you know by experience, I think.
~ Sophocles
OEDIPUS: If all such violence goes with honor now Why join the sacred dance.
~ Sophocles
Women are warlike too.
~ Sophocles
Aber gewiß. Zum Hasse nicht, zur Liebe bin ich.
~ Sophocles
You blame my temper but you do not see your own that lives within you; so you chide me instead." - Oedipus the King
~ Sophocles
I am a fork, and I will stick you!
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize.
~ Sorin Cerin
I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.
~ Gaspar Noe
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
~ George Orwell
In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.
~ Hannes Holm
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
~ Helen McCloy
Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. "Well, look at that." I studied my free wrist. "Denied. Good-bye
~ Ilona Andrews
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.
~ Ishmael Beah
Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.
~ James Patterson
you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
~ Jane Smiley
I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.
~ Jill Soloway
Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.
~ Joan Didion
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.
~ Sufjan Stevens
We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
~ Powers Boothe
'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
~ Nagarjuna
I don't get along with people who think they know everything and everyone.
~ Cyc Jouzy
Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman