Quotes About Conflict

It seemed like that's when she started laying her cold fire of hate.

It was his way of telling me I could not have him and myself both.

If I'd been a thorn in Mother's side, Angelina would be the whole briar patch.

The two most powerful impulses in my life have been the urge to create and the urge to be – a set of opposites – and they have always clunked into each other. How very like them to do so right now.

Years later a friend said to me, "When a conventional wife with a conventional husband experiences a feminist awakening, there is bound to be a marital explosion.

Most everyone has a private torment, some voracious badger that gnaws at them without ceasing

But before the friends settled on a wrought-iron bench with distance from others, they stopped to buy their kulfi. Alice took pistachio, and Perveen had plain cardamom. There was a brief squabble about paying the vendor, which Perveen won. The cold, sweet ice cream was a most comforting taste after all the tension of the day.

Bombay is both, the beautiful parts and the ugly parts, fighting block by block, to the death, for victory.

the five-thousand-year-old kingdom of Korea was divided by the Allies who liberated it from Japan, that everything went wrong.

Koreans' love–hate relationship with Japan carries on to this day, compounded by their relationship with the superpowers who took over where Japan left off: the United States and the Soviet Union, who together liberated Korea only to carve it up as a proxy for the Cold War.

all roads converge on a single moment on June 25, 1950. For those of her generation who lost somebody, life is forever divided between before that day and after.

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

If your opponent is of choleric temper,  seek to irritate him.  Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.

Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster

who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

The Art of War is self-explanatory

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.