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Quotes About Conflict

Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.
~ Euripides
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
~ Euripides
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
~ Euripides
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
~ Euripides
I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.
~ Euripides
Oh ! the blessed confessors of the kingdom of Christ, who were tried like gold in the excellence of their righteousness, and obtained through the conflict in which they were set the heavenly life of angels, and laid hold upon the promises of the hidden good things of the victory of the high calling--For eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what God has prepared for them that love him.
~ Eusebius
A power struggle is always better than absolute power.
~ Eva Hoffman
Now, tell me everything, please. Of course if he has harmed you I shall kill him, whoever he is," he added matter-of-factly. "But otherwise, perhaps something can be done.
~ Eva Ibbotson
well wtith a statue hermann cannot possibly fight
~ Eva Ibbotson
Anger and hate are seeds that germinate war. Forgiveness is a seed for peace. It is the ultimate act of self-healing.
~ Eva Mozes Kor
La ira y el odio son semillas que hacen germinar guerra.
~ Eva Mozes Kor
The e-mail lands like a mortar in the Hum suzerainty.
~ Evan Dara
insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17).
~ Evan Thomas
In part because Americans were fearful of enemies within, they went looking for enemies abroad. War and conquest have served to distract nations from their internal contradictions and conflict for as long as nations have existed.
~ Evan Thomas
according to Lodge, were guilty of far worse. The war lovers had exaggerated Spanish cruelty in order to get their war, and now they covered up the abuses of American troops.
~ Evan Thomas
She would walk away from fights she deemed unnecessary, while never shying away from the important ones. She knew when to tease, when to flatter, and when to punch the bully in the nose.
~ Evan Thomas
Sorry. I had an execution that ran over." Corbin frowned. "You come from executing one of my kind and act like it means nothing? Tell me, Addison, how would you feel if I said something like that to you? 'Sorry I couldn't be on time, I was draining some human dry and it took longer than I thought.
~ Evangeline Anderson
I risked a quick glance over my shoulder as we raced through the door and saw some men in uniforms converging on the spot we had been fighting. The three weres were lying on the floor, all obviously injured. Three Wolf Moon's leg was bent at a wrong angle and Tribal Tattoos was holding his arm and howling. Brass Knuckles was still scrabbling at his bleeding neck, sobbing like a little girl that he had been bitten.
~ Evangeline Anderson
We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.
~ Douglas Booth
Ladies and gentlemen, the relevant question is not when Iran will get the bomb. The relevant question is at what stage can we no longer stop Iran from getting the bomb.
~ Ehud Barak
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
~ Frank B. Kellogg
The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.
~ Pete Hoekstra
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
~ Allen Tate