Quotes About Conflict

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

Word — That invisible dagger.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Torn between violence and disillusionment, I seem to myself a terrorist who, going out in the street to perpetrate some outrage, stops on the way to consult Ecclesiastes or Epictetus.

Due nemici sono lo stesso uomo dimezzato.

Admir usurinta cu care ceilalti isi depasesc conflictele.Eu sunt mereu prizonierul si victima alor mele.Sunt de aceea acuzat ca nu am iesit din adolescenta, adica tocmai varsta la care conflictele sunt escamotate.

Tout Occidental tourmenté fait penser à un héros dostoïevskien qui aurait un compte en banque.

Agression is a trait common to men and new gods.

Deux ennemis, c'est un même homme divisé.

Religiile, ca ÅŸi ideologiile care le-au moÅŸtenit viciile, nu sunt decât cruciade împotriva umorului.

De nimica nu m? tem mai tare ca de scufundare în calm.Atacul face parte din condiÅ£iile echilibrului meu..

Pentru c? am în sânge contrazicerea,toate elanurile mele se anuleaz? reciproc.Chiar în momentul în care iau o hot?râre,o hot?râre contrar? o aboleÅŸte.Uneori,din fericire,o furie subit? vine s? tranÅŸeze disputa ÅŸi m? sileÅŸte s? trec la fapt?.F?r? aceast? izbucinire neprev?zut?,aÅŸ fi condamnat la o veÅŸnic? nemiÅŸcare.

O la existencia o yo!». Uno de los dos debe ceder.

Mai bine s-o rupi cu toat? lumea decât s?-nghiÅ£i o umilint? dup? alta.

I do not struggle against the world, I struggle against a greater force, against my weariness of the world.

Children turn, and must turn, against their parents, and the parents can do nothing about it, for they are subject to a law which decrees the relations among all the living: i.e., that each engenders his own enemy.

Every friendship is an inconspicuous drama, a series of subtle wounds.

A privilege to live in conflict with one's times. At every moment one is aware one does not think like the others. This state of acute dissimilarity, however indigent or sterile it appears, nonetheless possesses a philosophical status which one would be at a loss to seek in cogitations attuned to events.

L'histoire est une leçon d'inhumanité. Pas une goutte de sang du passé ne peut troubler le présent où je suis.

Two enemies—the same man divided.

Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries.

She has to live, but I pull her towards death.

I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge)

Now, my dear Mr. Douglas, don't go off on those tiresome foreign affairs. What can it signify which conquers which, or who dethrones who, at that distance? Let them fight it out quietly. Besides, you need not pretend to understand national feuds if you have not found out what is passing under your eyes;