Quotes About Conflict

Now the world seemed to her to have become so complex that its problems defied solution. There was only a chaos of conflicts of interest; the whole thing filled her with a sense of futility.

We can't go on like this. Look at you! It's killing you! And I--I can't do it any longer, not the way we've been doing it till now... I can't share you with something that passes itself off as a marriage, but is really habit and pride and ... empty embraces, or worse. If I loved you less, I might be able to, but--I can't. I won't.

I don't want to understand you,' I say tiredly. 'I wish you would not speak at all.

And so you see it is love—not scorn, not malice; only love—that makes me harm her, in the end.

Hate you!' I said. 'When I have fifty proper reasons for hating you, already; and only—' Only love you, I wanted to say. I didn't say it, though. What can I tell you? If she could still be proud, then so, for now, could I . . . I didn't need to say it, anyway: she could read the words in my face.

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. —Matthew 6:24

IF IT IS POSSIBLE, AS FAR AS IT DEPENDS ON YOU, LIVE AT PEACE WITH EVERYONE. Most people prefer to live peacefully with others, but when there are conflicts, many wait for the other person to make the first move. Problems inevitably arise when both parties wait for the other to take the first step.

Israel maintains its pressure on the Palestinian population not simply for its own security, then, but because such pressure has for four decades enabled it to maintain control over the territories- and, quite simply, because it encourages Palestinians to leave.

Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.

One day the Israelis may realize that the reason for the never-ending turmoil disrupting their lives has nothing to do with our opposition to the Jewish state but is rooted in the more mundane fact that human beings are not constituted to accept injustice.

How is dear Charlotte?' Celia asked sweetly, then launched into an account of how they'd been having their usual 'Fucking shut up', 'No, you fucking shut up', row a couple of evenings ago, when Yuri had opened the front door of their flat to scream up the stairs, 'Why don't both of you fucking shut up?

Veronique and Dylan having the mother of all arguments. I mean, it had a plot and a subplot and several walk-on parts....

God! Molly, will you just stop and listen to me?" he begged, trying to wrap himself around me again. I pushed him away. "What could you possibly say that I'd want to hear?" I demanded, slapping his lying arms away. "I love you," he pleaded. And it broke my heart into a thousand tiny pieces. Because it was only now, when I knew that I could never stand to be near him again, that he was telling me what I'd always wanted to hear.

Neve: 'Have I told you how much I hate you lately?' Celia: 'All the time and right back at you.

I wasn't sure how I'd gone from feeling sorry towards Jeane to baiting her into a full-on strop-attack. It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and … and … she reacted so beautifully. You just lit the fuse, stood well back and watched her explode.

You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

one's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's distance from the scene of conflict.

There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever -- money, for instance, or war.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Mendoza said to Tanner, "I am a brigand; I live by robbing the rich." Tanner replied, "I am a gentleman; I live by robbing the poor. Shake hands." The

The opposition's means, used against us, are always immoral and our means are always ethical and rooted in the highest of human values. George Bernard Shaw, in Man and Superman, pointed out the variations in ethical definitions by virtue of where you stand. Mendoza said to Tanner, "I am a brigand; I live by robbing the rich." Tanner replied, "I am a gentleman; I live by robbing the poor. Shake hands." The

A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises—which then become the start for the continuation of conflict, compromise, and on ad infinitum.