Quotes About Conflict

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

El fútbol es el bacilo de la guerra civil

Las mujeres son como las guerras: el que las ve de lejos y sin tocarlas más que con la imaginación, las encuentra magníficas, mientras que los que han conocido las guerras de cerca y han saboreado varias y las han resistido hasta el fin, ésos no hablan de ellas sino para condenarlas duramente... aunque al surgir una guerra nueva sean los primeros en alistarse para volver al frente

en la política real, el bando del bien no existe.

era imposible quedar bien con Dios y con el diablo.

The account of the Nakba (catastrophe) given by the refugees has been confirmed by documents preserved in Israeli archives. There

execution of civilians, collective rape of women. The Israeli general staff, moreover, used the Hebrew word tihur, meaning 'cleaning' or 'purification', more than 40 years before the concept of 'ethnic cleansing' was coined at the time of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.14

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another

onde as evidências são conflitantes, a certeza não deve ser alegada.

onde uma nova teoria supõe uma questão que entraria em conflito com um fato previamente estabelecido com convicção, a nova teoria deve ser rejeitada.

What I heard from the officers and the generals was, "Kids, this will never end well." Those were the officers I knew, and with some of them I had very close personal contact. None of them were Nazis. They all would say only, "My God, this isn't going to end well.

relations between Jews and non-Jews not only became worse almost immediately after 1933, but they continued to worsen over time.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

For instance, Visser, the Dutchman, had sold German machine guns to the Chinese, spied for the Japanese and served a term of imprisonment for killing a coolie in Batavia. He was not an easy man to handle.

Games are clearly differentiated from procedures, rituals, and pastimes by two chief characteristics: (1) their ulterior quality and (2) the payoff. Procedures may be successful, rituals effective, and pastimes profitable, but all of them are by definition candid; they may involve contest, but not conflict, and the ending may be sensational, but it is not dramatic. Every game, on the other hand, is basically dishonest, and the outcome has a dramatic, as distinct from merely exciting, quality.

It's a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy.

formal declaration of jihad in Constantinople, followed by well-organized demonstrations on the streets."32 Proclamations and pamphlets were distributed.

The struggle within Turkey that continues to this day is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk's radical reformation

Kemal's former opponents in the CUP, all dead by 1930, were resuscitated as heroes in the Turkish national consciousness.

she no longer wished to see him, citing differences of personality and taste as the reason. He had been distraught, threatening to throw himself beneath a tube train if she did not agree to see him again – always the last refuge of the morally bankrupt, she thought

One of the songs I wrote while living there was called "Tearing Us Apart," which was about "the committee," the group of Pattie's friends whom I now blamed for coming between us.

Clearly the rise of Adolf Hitler and his jack-booted storm troopers to power did not augur well for peace.