Quotes About Conflict

skirmishers who were running hither and thither

And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box. As he perceived this fact it occurred to him that he had never wished to come to the war. He had not enlisted of his free will. He had been dragged by the merciless government. And now they were taking him out to be slaughtered.

A single rifle flashed in a thicket before the regiment.

Henry Fleming?

the conflicts made him an indecisive mediator - a man, as someone had once observed, who couldn't keep his feet out of the shit on either side because he couldn't get the fencepost out of his ass.

Doesn't blood usually follow when language fails?

The Indian, in truth, no longer has a country. He is reduced to starvation or to warring to the death. The Indian´s first demand is that the white man shall not drive off his game and dispossesses him of his lands. How can we promise this unless we prohibit emigration and settlement...The end is sure and dreadful to contemplate. General John Pope

Ethnic Germans also surrendered. Even veterans of the Eastern Front. Corp. Friedrich Bertenrath of the 2nd Panzer Division explained, In Russia, I could imagine nothing but fighting to the last man. We knew that going into a prison camp in Russia meant you were dead. In Normandy, one always had in the back of his mind, 'Well, if everything goes to hell, the Americans are human enough that the prospect of becoming their prisoner was attractive to some extent.

Both Custer and Crazy Horse, in short, still had much to learn about each other.

Nor did the Americans find it necessary to wage a ruthless campaign. As has been mentioned previously, both sides respected

If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick—dead!

They hid, Bos came over the hill, looked puzzled, and Custer let loose with a bullet that whizzed over his brother's head. Bos turned

The United States fought Germany and Japan, racist societies, with a segregated army.

A tank cannon thrust through a kitchen door really stimulates exodus

The Bridge at Remagen

McGovern had other problems as well, personal ones with his

I am getting desperate with the inability of the men there to understand what can be spent on military weapons and what must be spent to wage the peace.

British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to

For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.

She loved him, in fact; his violence and strength appealed to some deep part of her. He in turn grew to love her, so far as such a violent brute was capable of the emotion. Love and war, Venus and Mars, have always had a strong affinity. No one quite knows why, but plenty of money has been made trying to find an answer.

Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

Cambridge produces martyrs and Oxford burns them.

He's your enemy, Donald!' 'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.