Quotes About Conflict

The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians

For nine years the Trojan War was more plunder than thunder

We know how wars that each side believed would soon be decided can stretch out over months and years. The Greeks and Trojans were perhaps the first to discover this unhappy truth.

He can hardly dare to suggest anything if you thunder at him like that," said Odysseus. "Either you want him to speak or you want to terrify him into silence. You can't have both.

The reality is that the past is a very, very dark place for everybody' – Martin McGuinness, former IRA commander1

Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar ice caps, deforestation, over-population, disease, war, famine, lack of water and decimation of animal species; these are all solvable but so far have not been solved.

Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct.

Soldiers could no longer die in the thousands, much less the hundreds.

I deal in lead, friend.

one octogenarian "grandfather" who still used the rifle with which he had killed the Russians who tried to stop him at the border in the thirties.

Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.

Science and religion stand watch over different aspects of all our major flashpoints. May they do so in peace and reinforcement--and not like the men who served as a cannon fodder in World War I, dug into the trenches of a senseless and apparently interminable conflict, while lobbing bullets and canisters of poison gas at a supposed enemy, who, like any soldier, just wanted to get off the battlefield and on with a potentially productive and rewarding life.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Mister, we deal in lead.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.