Quotes About Conflict

You can't serve God with a gun.

A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

If we have no commonly agreed criterion for measuring length, we will never agree about how much land is yours, and how much is mine, or how to cut lengths of wood when we build a house. There would be chaos.

It was pretty depressing. There's a lot of people here who want the war to go on forever, and they don't give a shit who's getting killed or who's doing the killing.

We stared at one another, his pride riding out to meet my irritation. Men. I liked Vinson, and he liked me, and we were ready to fight.

There is no man, and no place, without war.

Una volta qualcuno mi ha detto che se trasformi il tuo cuore in un'arma, prima o poi finisci per usarla contro di te.

The simple fact is that fighting to save a life is a better and more enduring reason than fighting to end one.

That's a hell of a health plan—an Afghan with a Kalashnikov pointed at your doctor.

There are demons in all of us. Some of them do not mean us any harm. They just want to live inside us. Some of them want more. They want to eat the souls that hold them.

Yoksulluk ve gurur, kan kardeÅŸ gibidir. Fakat sonunda mutlaka biri diÄŸerini öldürür.

Still, I didn't want to admit, even to myself, how much his approval meant to me. The play of conflicting emotions—love and suspicion, admiration and resentment—confused me, as it usually did when I thought of Khader Khan, or spent time with him.

There was so much sadness in it, but so much power as well.

The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

I sighed, sure in my own mind that the new war would change nothing: that wars can't really change things. It's peace that makes the deepest cuts, I thought.

A Dutch mercenary in Kinshasa once told me that the only time he ever stopped hating himself was when the risk he faced became so great that he acted without thinking or feeling anything at all. I wished he hadn't said it to me because I knew exactly what he meant.

There is no man, and no place, without war,' he replied, and it struck me that it was the most profound thing he'd ever said to me. 'The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

There is no man, and no place, without war,' he replied, and it struck me that it was the most profound thing he'd ever said to me. 'The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.' 'I … I hope there's more to it than that, brother. But, shit, maybe you're right.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.

Fanaticism means that if you're not against me, you're against me.

Tell me to mind my own business, tell me to go fuck myself, to piss, off, go on, say it, but don't tell me nothing's wrong.

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.

No, she cried, no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.