Quotes About Conflict

The indirectness of communication conceals the formation of schisms—different team members use terms differently but don't realize it.

maybe that's all history was: a succession of bullies and thieves, each

Thieves of Baghdad, which was published in 2005. Looting in Iraq The looting went far beyond the museum and extended to archaeological sites throughout Iraq, with reports of men armed with both shovels and machine guns illegally digging at sites across the country.

Sports and politics don't mix.

There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit.

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Anger is the prelude to courage.

Lincoln was not keen on admitting West Virginia as it had "seceded" from Virginia—which was a state and Lincoln would never concede that it, and other "so called" Confederate states, had left the Union.11 So, supporters of West Virginia created a legal fiction that what became West Virginia, was really the authentic Commonwealth of Virginia.

Of these was the town of Romney, which changed hands fifty-three times throughout the war.

once the actual combat began, chivalry was dead.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

Ah, war – machine wars. Bullets took them all. The brave and the cowardly, the weak and the fine strong ones like Dannie. And it wasn't the dying that took bravery, then, for cowards could die. It was the living that took bravery – living in that mud and rain and cold and keeping the spirit strong through it all. That was the bravery.

But at heart what we are talking about is not pathology but an intense conflictual knowing, a knowing that we are worthy smacking up against a knowing that we are just passing through: a knowing, that is, that we matter and that we do not matter. This is a true and not a pathological understanding. Every smart person possesses this understanding and can't help but feel distressed by this understanding.

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Confirmands today are like young soldiers marching to war, the war of Jesus Christ against the gods of this world. It is a war that demands the commitment of one's whole life. Is not God, our Lord, worthy of this struggle? Idolatry and cowardice confront us on all sides, but the direst foe does not confront us, he is within us. 'Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

Peace is the opposite of security.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

War…next to love, has most captured the world's imagination" – Eric Partridge, famous lexicographer and author who served in the Australian Imperial Force during WWI

Those who have sat in a meeting debating the units of measurement in a report will recognize this problem.

Chapter Twenty-Five

4 of us, and 2,000 of them. Piss-poor odds. For them.

Empires, especially those born in violence, lived in violence.