Quotes About Conflict

Then, after you have killed as many Americans as you can," Sano added, "you are to use the other grenade to kill yourself.

I'm saving it for the Krauts, fathead," Sid said. "I'm gonna kill the first German I see, and every single Kraut I meet from Normandy to Berlin.

That's what a bully is," his dad said. "Somebody who pushes people around and never gets in trouble for it.

The Yamato will be here soon, and it'll smash those American ships!

What would happen, Reshmina wondered, if the big countries stopped selling weapons to the little countries?

American devils, whose only purpose is to kill you and your families in the most brutal, merciless ways possible.

Almost four years ago, the Japanese had sneak-attacked Pearl Harbor, a US naval base in the Hawaiian Islands.

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

If everything is a matter of opinion, and if everybody is entitled to his own opinion, force becomes the only way of settling differences of opinion.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Suzy appeared in the doorway. "Bella," she said. Bertie groaned. Not Bossy Bella. Of all Suzy's friends she was the worst. She would be trying to boss him around all night.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

You know things aren't right in your life when you look forward to going back to war," he said.

Prepare for war, I thought, and pray for peace.

At first the wave of Persia's fleet rolled firm, but next, as our ships jammed into the narrows and no one could help any other and our own bronze teeth bit into our own strakes, whole oarbanks shattered.

Cyprus floats

Al igual que nuestro pariente el chimpancé, siempre nos hemos matado unos a otros para disputarnos el territorio y las hembras, pero con el advenimiento de la esclavitud nos redujimos a nosotros mismos a algo nuevo: a un cultivo de exportación.

I don't feel anything but rage for the person who gave me a secret I didn't want.

The text's construction of an ailment as the product of a conflict with supernatural beings...renarrates the suffer's experience in martial and heroic terms. If recited to victims of the illness, the charm had the potential to help them renegotiate their self-perception.

War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.