Quotes About Conflict

Weapons of war belong on the battlefield, not in our schools.

the singular cry of the wild: hey! get your stroller off my sidewalk!

I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

While the morality taught by home, church, and community (up to roughly the start of World War II) gave direct support to the school in its efforts to teach the young in traditional ways, this is no longer so in all cases. On the contrary, the morality now taught to many children before they come to school, and while there, is often largely at variance with the school's educational efforts.

Brisbane Versus Becker

All of life is a contest. The weak against the strong - the stupid against the clever - the honest against the dishonest.

A man with a knife making threats." "Ooooh. Big bad man with big bad knife." Stan Jessup, two ex-wives, six kids, short temper.

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

The bloodthirsty killers were the men who gunned down the Cheyenne children and women, then returned to mutilate the bodies and set the village on fire.

I shot the sheriff?

My great-great grandfather was a Tory and fought on the side of the Crown against the rebels." "He was on the losing side then?

Katherine thought that no man had the right to be so devastatingly handsome, especially a man she was determined not to like. Feeling herself getting dizzy from just looking at him, she sensed that if she wasn't careful, she could lose her wits around him most any time.

The bloodthirsty killers were the men who gunned down the Cheyenne children and women, then returned to mutilate the bodies and set the village on fire. Chief Black Kettle and his people had already signed for peace." "The newspapers at home never tell that side of the story." "Maybe they should.

She saw that her native New World forgetfulness would be forever in conflict with Old World blood-memory.

With fools forbear to argue--better strive to wake the dead.

Speech can break lives, create enemies, and start wars, or it can give wisdom, heal divisions, and create peace. This has always been so, yet in the modern age the positive and negative potentials of speech have been vastly multiplied by the tremendous increase in the means, speed, and range of communications.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Truth breeds hatred.

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down

He that troubleth his own household shall inherit the wind ..... etc.