Quotes About Conflict

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

AP. : Peut-on proclamer que nous restons neutres ? De Gaule : Il ne faut rien proclamer du tout. Et d'abord c'est faux ! Nous aidons les Marocains en leur fournissant des armes. Nous aidons les Algériens en mettant à leur disposition notre aérodrome de Colomb-Béchar. Nous les aidons à s'entre-tuer. Pourtant, il faut bien faire comme si nous étions neutres. [Le 23 octobre 1963]

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.

I was what came to mind when there was blood on the floor.

In order to fight a war (probably the most extreme form of poor communication), unfamiliarity is the preferred state of mind.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six.

Beneath his zen-like tranquility lurks something wounded… and dangerous.

Tutto nasce dalla paura. Molte battaglie non vengono vinte dalla sola capacità di battersi, ma dal controllo degli istinti degli uomini.

The old men send the young to die in war, But if the roles were reversed, what then the score?

So yet another man had encountered the morass of my family and felt the only solution was to put a gun to his head. This does not bode well.

War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Our own internal conflicts prevent us from gaining the emotional clarity needed to maintain a safe and satisfying bond. The situation compounds when two men, both overwhelmed with shame, come together in an intense and explosive expression of passion.

Communards died here, in 1871. They fought all night among the gravestones, then surrendered at dawn. The soldiers put them against this wall, shot them, and buried them in a common grave." "Are you a communist, Ilya? In your heart?" "Oh yes. Aren't you?" "No. I just want to live my life, to be left alone." There was a moment's silence, then Ilya said, "Now, a matter of some delicacy." They turned

What was Trotsky's quote? "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.

savaged him

Maybe Horst really believed all that "might makes right" malarkey. Maybe he didn't like an Irish boy showing up the German "master race." Or maybe he was just a bleeding maggot.

Germany surrendered. Hitler committed suicide. The Nazis are through.

But this is—this is incredible!" Goldsmit stopped in an empty hallway next to a table with a vase full of edelweiss flowers. "Switzerland is neutral!" "Do you think the Nazis care?" I asked him.

Because that's what Nazi Germany was: the bully who found your most painful wound and poked at it with a stick.