Quotes About Conflict

Nelson immediately told him to give Betty however much money she wanted, in order to promptly resolve the custody dispute, which was only hurting the children.

In words lie the seeds of all dissension, and love at its most profound is silent.

Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

We can't have your people fighting each other," I said. The 'royal we' is very important in police work; it reminds the person you're talking to that behind you stands the mighty institution that is the Metropolitan Police, robed in the full majesty of the law and capable, in manpower terms, of invading a small country. You only hope when you're using that term that the whole edifice is currently facing in the same direction as you are.

He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.

An argument," said Dr. Walid. "It's an argument of wizards.

most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight—not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. … That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

Nightingale was against it from the start, said we should send in the RAF and bomb the camp from altitude. He said it was the only way to be sure." He gave me a puzzled look. "Did I say something funny?

Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight—not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

The first thing he thinks of is weaponry, killing his fellow humans. The second thing is power.

Once they discovered our solar-powered city, tucked high in the Sierra Oriental, I knew that the end was near. Stupidly, they attacked us, like a wild barbarian horde. We slaughtered them with laser beams and heat-seeking bullets. Instead of driving them away, that only whetted their appetite.

The anti-Semite who avoids violence has no reservations about enabling, excusing, and rationalizing it. Israel,

That apocalypse is always with us: all the joy that I take from this land has been contingent on the destruction of someone else's world.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Let me just say, we call Iraq the abnormal normal, 'cause over there the weirdest stuff is just everyday life.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

A man who differs from another in Opinion sets himself above him in his own Judgement, and in several Particulars pretends to be the wiser Person.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

I felt a jealous anger rising within me, a desire for her to desire me, the only kind of desire, Alex had once told me during a fight, I was able to sustain.

It was beginning to dawn on me that most of the history of Paraguay revolved around white men chasing after other white men in the jungle, or else trying to turn the brown ones white.

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility—that is the means to real peace.…