Quotes About Conflict

Military men are the scourges of the world.

What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?

Entre pauvres gens, faut bien qu'on s'aide ... C'est les grands qui font la guerre.

Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.

But she shook with rage, and got up one of those conjugal scenes which make a peaceable man dread the domestic hearth more than a battlefield where bullets are raining.

Voyez-vous, monsieur, entre pauvres gens, faut bien qu'on s'aide… C'est les grands qui font la guerre.

as eager to attack as they were ready to take to flight;

Quello che si ama con violenza finisce sempre per uccidere. Ma come spiegare ciò che mi succede? Come raccontare in modo da farmi capire? Non lo so, non lo so più, so soltanto che è così – ecco tutto.

Ces gens ne se sont battus que pour vider les silos ou piller des convois. Ils semblent n'avoir agi ni par haine, ni par fanatisme religieux, mais par faim. Notre système de colonisation consistant à ruiner l'Arabe, à le dépouiller sans repos, à le poursuivre sans merci et à le faire crever de misère, nous verrons encore d'autres insurrections.

La théorie révolutionnaire est maintenant ennemie de toute idéologie révolutionnaire, et elle sait qu'elle l'est.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace.

Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. The triumph of sin in 1865 would have stimulated and helped to civilize both sides.

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer.

These little debates are known as "flamewars.

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe. Conflict with time seems to me the most potent and fruitful theme in all human expression.

Hey, Bode, you want to not shine that thing in my face.. (Lovecraft 117). This quote was said by Kinsey after seeing a flash light hit in her eyes. This was before she realize that it was actually Sam who was pointing the light at her. After that immediately, she was hit in the face by Sam. This happened near the end of the book when Sam was breaking into the house and trying to steal the keys from the Lockes.

Es schien mir recht bedauerlich, dass Derby sich gerade für sie interessierte, sagte aber nichts dazu, da Vernarrtheit an Widerstand bloß gedeiht.