Quotes About Conflict

others will see McKinsey as an invading army to either flee or drive out, depending on their power in the organization. As one former McKinsey-ite put it, "It was a rare engagement when there wasn't at least one sector of the client organization that did not want us there and did not want us to come up with a real answer.

will be either converted to McKinsey's cause or bypassed. Sometimes, however, one powerful faction in an organization calls in McKinsey against the wishes of another powerful faction. That's when trouble arises, as we found out.

war doesn't end war any more than a heroin fix ends a heroin addiction.

The purveyor of violence always hurts himself before he hurts anyone else. When

People's ways are all so different. It's rather infernal—trying to please everybody

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours

Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places who do not have to endure war's savagery will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.

We have never gone to Condition Red, for that would mean that we actually considered ourselves at war and would launch weapons, all of our weapons, at the enemy.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Desire Under the Elms

A Long Day's Journey into Night

An oft-mentioned example in this regard is the Medieval practice of catapulting corpses. The primal scene in this regard is the 14th century Italian trading post at Caffa, on the northern border of the Black Sea. Ongoing skirmishes between Italian merchants and Muslim locals led, in one instance, to the catapulting of plague-ridden corpses by the latter, over the fortress walls of the former.87

Language falters where contempt flourishes.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

Isn't hate—twisted love?

If vaccination can be conscripted into acts of war, it can still be instrumental in works of love.

Sonata," he says, "means 'sounding together.' It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they struggle until one wins, in the resolution. It is a beautiful form, it has endured into this century.

Observing that we have waged wars on poverty and drugs as well as cancer, Susan Sontag writes, "Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in

Things with her, he says, were a disaster in slow motion.

What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.

In a case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

An old man weds a tyrant, not a wife.

These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favor of the gods was equal for both sides.