Quotes About Conflict

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Families – can't live with them – can't take them down to the river and drown them all in sacks.

Most of my relatives could start a fight in an empty room and then lie about who won.

Despite the willingness of people in Nagorno-Karabkh to wander through minefields, they seemed to be a surprisingly long-lived people.

rule of war – always try and get the enemy

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

For 1,000 years, Jerusalem was exclusively Jewish; for about 400 years, Christian; for 1,300 years, Islamic; and not one of the three faiths ever gained Jerusalem without the sword, the mangonel or the howitzer.

The war could not be won – but could it be ended with honour?

War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.

Commissar for Justice?' Isaak Shteinberg, a Left-SR, challenged Lenin. 'Let's honestly call it the Commissariat of Social Annihilation!' 'Well said!' replied Lenin. 'That's exactly how it's going to be!

Amos Oz, the late Jerusalemite writer, offered this droll solution: 'We should remove every stone of the Holy Sites and transport them to Scandinavia for a hundred years and not return them until everyone has learned to live together in Jerusalem.

around the streets, some of the troops started firing haphazardly at burzoi shoppers on Nevsky Prospect. Gunfights broke out. Out at the Kronstadt naval base, Bolshevik sailors rose up, murdered 120 officers, including their admiral, and then demanded that Lenin, Zinoviev and Kamenev give them their orders to take the capital.

But war only ends for those who have not been in one.

Am I a Jew? [ . . . ] Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?

For much of the seventeenth century the border between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans had been relatively quiet – relatively in the sense that large-scale raiding did happen (baking in a level of violence which we would consider scarcely credible) but it was not by the standards of the time serious.

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go. My heart... not so much.

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal." "Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps. "I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused.

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.

There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes.

Don't try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you." "I hate you, too.

What are you boys doing?" she asks, as if we're still little kids messing around. "Arguin'," Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Listen, I don't know what the hell happened between you and Marco. To be honest I don't really want to know, 'cause if I did I'd probably want to kick the shit outta him." "I don't need you to protect me." "What if I want to?