Quotes About Conflict

This is at the heart of the professional pilot's eternal conflict," writes Wilkinson in a comment to the November Oscar case. "Into one ear the airlines lecture, "Never break regulations. Never take a chance. Never ignore written procedures. Never compromise safety." Yet in the other they whisper, "Don't cost us time. Don't waste our money. Get your passengers to their destination—don't find reasons why you can't.

I was still unable to reconcile the uncontrollable passions of "want" and the unmovable insistence of "need" as they battled relentlessly over possession of my meager resources, with "want" winning out over "need" far more frequently than it should have.

It was towards the end of June that incompatibility became established between them like a new season of the year.

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

Soldiers are dreamers.

Against the background of the War and its brutal stupidity those men had stood glorified by the thing which sought to destroy them…. I

I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele.

In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complain when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.

The poor ego… serves three severe masters and does what it can to bring their claims and demands into harmony with one another. No wonder that the ego so often fails in its task. Its three tyrannical masters are the external world, the super-ego and the id.

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could have no difficulty in exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists.

Ne jau par savu godu ir j?c?n?s. No vis?m šai pasaul? iesp?jamaj?m darb?b?m karš ir tas, kur? goda ir vismaz?k. Vien?gais gods ir c?n?ties un mirt tikai t?p?c, lai karš beigtos un vairs nekad neb?tu vajadz?bas karot atkal. Gods ir saprast, kad j?karo, un prast apst?ties, kad karošanai var dar?t galu.

The depressed person…sees a big discrepancy between what he aspired to in terms of human relations and life goals and what he can achieve in this meager reality. He cannot solve the conflict. What is available is not acceptable to him, and what would be acceptable he cannot grasp. He experiences the tragic situation of having no choice.

War is the remedy for peace.

The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined: "Be careful not to waste your life where strife & quarrelling are rife; keep well away from fractious fools.

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered.

Human beings can grow to make killing fields, and they can grow to make gardens.

Dennis, please. I don't know what-" "Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes.