Quotes About Conflict

These private wars were fought by the knights with furious gusto and a single strategy, which consisted in trying to ruin the enemy by killing or maiming as many of his peasants and destroying as many crops, vineyards, tools, barns, and other possessions as possible, thereby reducing his sources of revenue.

As a result, the chief victim of the belligerents was their respective peasantry.

Whatever our lot may be, August 4, 1914, will remain for all eternity one of Germany's greatest days!

had said, "The greatest contribution Vietnam is making … is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without arousing the public ire.

Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others. Under

were being ravaged by her brother. In their agreement Amadeus

That vexing problem of war presented by the refusal of the enemy to behave as expected in his own best interest beset them.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. The claim of the Church to spiritual leadership could never be made wholly credible to all its communicants when it was founded in material wealth. The more riches the Church amassed, the more visible and disturbing became the flaw; nor could it ever be resolved, but continued to renew doubt and dissent in every century.

The Prime Minister was not the only person unconcerned with odds and ends of this kind. When a German official, foreseeing the change to a long war of attrition, presented Moltke with a memorandum on the need for an Economic General Staff, Moltke replied, "Don't bother me with economics—I am busy conducting a war.

Cognitive dissonance is the tendency "to suppress, gloss over, water down or 'waffle' issues which would produce conflict or 'psychological pain' within an organization.

The Battle of the Marne was one of the decisive battles of the world not because it determined that Germany would ultimately lose or the Allies ultimately win the war but because it determined that the war would go on.

There's no remedy for a spat between friends like visiting flaming, whirling death upon your enemies.

Growing up in a military family perhaps cultivates a certain kind of imagination that makes it easier to engage in the subject of war.

Man is double, having an animal and a spiritual nature, at war with one another.

What then is Error? It is nothing per se. It is the opposition of one relative truth against another to the exclusion of the latter.

Your case against me is so very clearly stated I plead no contest, I just turn and shrug I've come to figure all importance overestimated You must mean water when you beg for blood

As you sit there dealing with your own mind, remember this: when interacting with thoughts in your head, or when interacting with another person in life, and something is thought or said to you that upsets you and makes you want to fight or flee, wait twenty-four hours before you respond.

I hate my boss! I hope he never graduates high school.

What did I tell you about killing your brother in the living room?

It is the Arab world of the Middle East, holding 99.8 percent of that sector which, with such virulent hatred, would wholly exclude Israel from the minuscule territory that it occupies, which is presently under .2 percent of that region.76

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

Stell dir eine Kartoffel mit aufgemaltem Gesicht vor, dann weißt du ungefähr, wie er aussieht. Es war nicht schwer, sich auszumalen, wie sich im Innern dieser knubbeligen Kugel viel zu viele großartige Gedanken um Raum und Plätze zankten und aus Platzmangel nach außen drückten.