Quotes About Conflict

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

The last night of love, the first night of war

There comes a time when only anger is love.

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

War…next to love, has most captured the world's imagination

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

You get married to get an ally against your family.

You get married to have an ally against your family.

I'll never fully understand the agenda of angry breast-feeders.

I am the star in my own Shakespearean farce, never managing to sleep with one woman without wanting the other. The gods of sex and irony are playing hockey, and I am their unwitting puck.

Where there once was the purest kind of love, there is now a snake pit of fury and resentment and a new dark and twisted love that hurts more than all the rest of it put together.

We get married to have an ally against our family.

Lo que he aprendido, después de nueve años de riñas matrimoniales, es que todo lo que viene después del «pero» es una mierda—.

I could report the rest of the conversation, but it's just more of the same, two people whose love became toxic, lobbing regret grenades at each other.

You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone.

You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?

Sometimes nature cannot stand us. And Sometimes we cannot stand our own nature.

Man to man, my eye Kipps snorted. It was like seeing two schoolgirls squabbling over a scented pencil. You should have heard the squeals.

If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.

If you have courage, strengthen it…if you have none, develop it. We'll need it all through this conflict and afterward.

You choose your battles. I think it's important to choose what battles you stand up for. But there are some battles that you should never, ever stand down from.

The police and the vulnerable are natural allies. That they are so is counterintuitive and strange, for they also loathe one another.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.