Quotes About Conflict

This was no game of thrones where generals sacrificed and maneuvered on the backs of their soldiers; this was the most primal sort of conflict—Odin's weather, the red chaos of slaughter—where men stood breast-to-breast and shield-to-shield, and dealt the same blows they took in kind.

You listen to me. You try to tell her that she failed that man... And you're not welcome here anymore.

If you run, your enemy will hunt you. Kill your enemy, and you are forever free.)

Ronald Reagan, the greatest president that ever lived, he had a quote that sums this up nicely: If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this land, and neither did you.

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. (Prov. 17:9)

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. (3 John 9–10)

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. (Prov. 21:9)

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. (Col. 3:13 NIV)

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its ten thousands.

SEAMUS: It's the civilians that suffer, when there's an ambush they don't know where to run. Shot in the back to save the British Empire. Shot in the breast to save the soul of Ireland. I believe in the freedom of Ireland and that England has no right to be here, but I draw the line when I hear the gunmen blowing about dying for the people when it's the people that are dying for the gunmen. With all due respect to the gunmen, I don't want them to die for me.

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

He knows he can trample down you Danes to his heart's content, humiliate and murder without fear of reprisal. But he will find me different. I will show him how Geats shape to kill in the heat of battle.

Let me educate you In one short sentence. War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.