Quotes About Conflict

Parts of the inside of her head screamed at other parts of the inside of her head.

First you had to fight the Stones fans, which was tricky because they fought dirty and had their knuckles nearer the ground.

nearly forcing him into the path of a cyclist, who cursed and swore at him from a moral high ground that cyclists alone seem able to inhabit.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem

So long as you can keep disagreeing with each other violently enough and slagging each other off in the popular press, and so long as you have clever agents, you can keep yourselves on the gravy train for life. How does that sound?

If I ever meet myself," said Zaphod, "I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me." Marvin

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.

The first people to pour in were the missionaries: Catholics who arrived to teach the native populace that the Protestants were wrong and Protestants who came to teach that the Catholics were wrong. The only thing the Protestants and Catholics agreed about was that the natives had been wrong for two thousand years.

You're a jerk," repeated the alien, "a complete kneebiter.

Ford Shouted out, Hey listen! I think we've got enough problems of our own having you shooting at us, so if you could avoid laying your problems on us as well, I think we'd all find it easier to cope

who was arguing with a spokesman for the bulldozer drivers about whether or not Arthur Dent constituted a mental health hazard, and how much they should get paid if he did)

We always had the greatest arguments over sex and fishing.

Hey," he said, "I thought you said you didn't want to shoot us!" and ducked again. They waited. After a moment a voice replied, "It isn't easy being a cop!

Are you suggesting that those men were in my employ? That's exactly what I'm suggesting. I don't know if you noticed but those men were pointing a gun at me. I'm sorry, but if anyone in my employ did that, I'd sack them on the spot.

never get into a pissing match with folks who buy ink by the barrel

President Johnson no longer trusted Cronkite and his CBS ilk. At a March 1967 dinner party, he told reporters that CBS and NBC were "controlled by the Vietcong.

Mommy loves me I know. Mommy loves me I know. I know Mommy loves me. I am scared of her. A

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.

David, I feel like the fucking Road Runner. Your corporate staff is like a pack of coyotes. They spend all their time setting traps, trying to get me." Massaro's Office Products Division adopted the Road Runner cartoon character as their mascot.

Grasping Armstrong by the throat came ultimately from R. B. Rutledge, though shaking him was Black's idea, and shaking him like a "rag" was Herndon and Weik's.

Zero-sum games deal with resources that neither increase nor decrease in amount—they only shift from one player to the other. Given your present frame of mind, were you to speak now, I'm afraid you might say something rash. I would feel it incumbent to offer a rejoinder. As a result of this exchange, you would be mortified and humiliated, which—as dictated by the rules of game theory—would increase my influence and status at your expense.

A series of droughts between AD 760 and 800 seem to have been the trigger for famine that hit the common people disproportionately hard. It was the last straw for a society teetering on the edge of alienation and conflict.