Quotes about Conflict

Sabina once allowed herself to be taken along to a gathering of fellow emigres. As usual, they were hashing over whether they should or should not have taken up arms against the Russians. In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting. Sabina said: Then why don't you go back and fight?

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

It's worse now because before I had 16 Republican, conservative people and the media had their favorite but they didn't particularly love anybody. Now it's myself really against the media.

The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Or consider the mainstream religions. We are enjoined in Micah to do justly and love mercy; in Exodus we are forbidden to commit murder; in Leviticus we are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves; and in the Gospels we are urged to love our enemies. Yet think of the rivers of blood spilled by fervent followers of the books in which these well-meaning exhortations are embedded. In

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature.

Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas

If the enemy can think and feel, you might hesitate to kill them. And killing is very important. Better to see them as monsters.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.