Quotes About Conflict

War has, so to speak, become a luxury which only the small nations can still afford, and they only so long as they are not drawn into the spheres of influence of the great powers and do not possess nuclear weapons themselves.

Just because the Jews had been used as a non-national element, they could be of value in war and peace only as long as during the war everybody tried consciously to keep the possibilities of peace intact, only as long as everybody's aim was a peace of compromise and the re-establishment of a modus vivendi. As soon as "victory or death" became a determining policy, and war actually aimed at the complete annihilation of the enemy, the Jews could no longer be of any use.

De belangrijkste handicap van de totalitaire propaganda is dat ze deze hunker van de massa's naar een volledig consistente, begrijpelijke en voorspelbare wereld niet kan bevredigen zonder ernstig in conflict te raken met het gezond verstand.

La razón principal de que la guerra siga con nosotros no es un secreto deseo de muerte de la especie humana, ni un irreprimible instinto de agresión ni, final y más plausiblemente, los serios peligros económicos y sociales inherentes al desarme, sino el simple hecho de que no haya aparecido todavía en la escena política un sustituto de este árbitro final.

Bridget saw her husband look for her and shivered. The memory of how the MacNachtons had dealt with those thieves was still clear in her mind, clear and terrifying. This incident had given the chilling memories credence, ensured that she would not be able to dismiss it all as a bad dream. She now knew exactly what her husband was, what he was capable of. How could she live with that? And, yet, how could she not?

he tore at her clothing like he was searching for something she had stolen from him.

families were fighting for an eel's head, which

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state which first makes conflict unavoidable and permanent.

America was waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that one-third of our people will kill one-third of our people while one-third of our people watches.

Extremists are relentless. They don't see right or wrong—they see us and them.

They say you never know how someone will react when the grenade is thrown.

You want people lined up, Will. You want the good guys on one side, the bad on the other. It doesn't work that way, does it? It is never that simple. Love, for example, leads to hate. I think that was what started it all. Primitive love.

I turned to Otto. "Why the hell did you hit him like that?" Otto looked back at me with eyes that sent a chill straight through my heart. They were lifeless eyes, not the slightest hint of light behind them. It was as though I were looking into the eyes of an inanimate object—the eyes of an end table, maybe, or a cardboard box. From

Family and money is never a good mix. Someone is always going to feel resentful.

Win looked at him. "Were you ever in the military?" he asked. Pants seemed confused. "No." "You are a worthless punk," Win said in the same tone he might use when discussing a mixed stock report. "A pitiful ectoplasm such as yourself wearing army fatigues is an affront to any man or woman who has ever experienced real combat. If I ever happen across you again donning any similar garb, I will hurt you severely. Do I make myself clear?

Brett told me you spy on him," Hester said. Brett and his big mouth, she thought. Wonderful. "I monitor his online activity." "You say tomato, I say tomahto.

What made me pause here was the pure dichotomy.

Eloise had been with Dad since before the riots. As long as I breathe, Dad often said, Eloise will have a job. She was like a second wife to him. She took care of him during his workday. They argued and fought and got grumpy with each other. There was genuine affection. Mom knew all this. Thank God Eloise is uglier than a cow living near Chernobyl, Mom liked to say, or I might wonder.

You can participate or you can protect, but you really can't do both. Her fellow soldiers would understand. Some might force themselves to cross over.

What can you tell me about his divorce?" "Just that it's been acrimonious as all hell.

Like I said, we all choose our battles.

War is never a meritocracy for the casualties .

War is never a meritocracy for the casualties. Shane's

I'm not going to stop digging," Myron said. Wickner adjusted his cap again and began to walk away. "Then more people are going to die." There was no threat in his tone, just the stilted, pained timber of inevitability.