Quotes About Conflict

Who is she?" Æthelflaed asked, her voice scarce above a whisper. "Her name," I said, "is Brida." And the gelded priest turned an agonized face toward me and called for help. "Father!" He was my son.

He doesn't want to face Englishmen,' the Lord of Douglas said, and he knew he was right. Ever since the Scottish knights

I was hated, and I knew it. Part of it was my fault, I am arrogant.

I imagined the pleasure Æthelred would take if he could seize Stiorra. He was my cousin and we had hated each other since childhood.

would rather draw a blade than settle an argument with words, for that is what a warrior does, but most men and women are not fighters. They crave peace. They want nothing more than to watch their children grow, to plant their seeds and live to see the harvest, to worship their god, to love their family and to be left in peace.

I decided to start a war, father, I said, cheerfully, it's so much more interesting than peace.

They make laws that no one wants, then make money disagreeing with each other what the damned law means, and the more they disagree the more money they make, but still they go on making laws, and they make them ever more complicated so that they can get paid for arguing ever more intricately with one another! I grant you they're clever buggers, but God, how I hate lawyers.

Night was falling across the trampled rye. Nine thousand men had been killed or wounded in the fight for the crossroads

He had pretended to be full of remorse, and shouted that remorse to the sky, "No more tits, God! No more tits! Keep me from tits!" and I remembered how Alfred had turned away in frustrated disgust. "Exanceaster

If my body is recovered, Colonel, pray have it sent back to Normandy. My companion, on the other hand, is from Boston, so you may allow his body to rot in whatever noxious swamp it comes to rest. Come on, boy!

Guendoloen hated us. She was Merlin's wife

You do not swing in a shield wall, you stab. May the gods ever send me enemies who swing their blades.

Bem, graças a Deus eu não sei o que é perder uma batalha, mas certamente nada pode ser mais doloroso do que ganhar uma com a perda de tantos amigos.

The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

Sandino proved to the world that a people's army could resist every effort of the most modern military machine.

Peccato." The sculptor shrugged and drifted away. A minute later there was another fistfight, during

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. Theres only one way of escaping trouble; and thats killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed.

il y a toute cette autre pensée de la guerre, non pas virile, exaltante, source de grandeur ou d'accomplissement de soi, mais tout simplement nécessaire car l'alternative à cette guerre ce ne serait pas la paix mais l'enfer...(ch. 5 La nostalgie de la guerre)

Je n'ai jamais compris comment les guerres pouvaient faire tant de morts quand les chocs frontaux y sont finalement si rares. Je n'ai jamais plus admiré un récit de guerre qu'Hommage à la Catalogne de George Orwell parce qu'il raconte, justement, cette loi de l'attente et de la patience qui est la loi no 1 des combattants. (ch. 12 Les mots de la guerre)

I side with the West because there is an abyss between totalitarianism and democracy, an obvious fact of which we must never lose sight.

c'est (...) l'un des paradoxes de cette guerre : le côté irréprochable du gouvernement de Colombo qui, dans les zones qu'il a perdues, et ne serait-ce que pour ne pas s'avouer vaincu et avoir à prendre acte de la sécession, continue d'assurer les services publics, de payer les fonctionnaires, fussent-ils désignés par les Tigres et à leur botte.

I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.