Quotes About Conflict

He stuffed a hand into his back pocket, found his Beretta, and shot the problem in the chest.

War doesn't determine who's right, only who's left. And that had not been him.

9mm was ready. But

Principles had a nasty way of interfering with results.

Never hate your enemy. That clouded judgment.

so long as the earth was inhabited by people, there would be no calm place.

Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.

War doesn't determine who's right, only who's left.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

They extolled America as the "great melting pot" and in the next breath engaged in dangerous games, pitting one group against another, then summed it all up by saying that "Americans needed to come together!

America's partisan divide went global.

The fields of psychology and psychiatry have also inadvertently contributed to the problem. Ideas that are not evidence-based proliferate, such as Freud's Oedipus complex (you are sexually attracted to your parents, which creates a hidden conflict, giving rise to anxiety), while evidence-based ones lie dormant.

Tom told me he didn't think about Gloria's feelings at all. It didn't even occur to him that she might think something about her had turned him off—which was, of course, not the case. The fact is that the relationship had nowhere to go except toward commitment, and this set off Tom's internal alarm system. After that, all he could think about was putting out the fire.

Would a diet high in omega-3 lead to world peace?

Youths are chosen for combat precisely because they are unable to fully imagine their own mortality. If armies were composed of the middle-aged, there would be no wars.

Todo el mundo le había rechazado, obstaculizado o se había opuesto a él.

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.

Oscar Wilde's prophecy that "as long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

We never see a journalist saying to the camera, "I'm reporting live from a country where a war has not broken out"—or a city that has not been bombed, or a school that has not been shot up. As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billions of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents.

In fact, war may be just another obstacle an enlightened species learns to overcome, like pestilence, hunger, and poverty.

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception