Quotes about Conflict

When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little stone in her chest.

She glared at Mama through her tears, wondering why she couldn't be thankful instead of resentful. Hildie knew what it was like to try to please Mama, never measuring up to expectations. For once, she didn't care. "Why do you have to be so mean to him?

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

Each man is a little war.

Come, come, the Baron said. We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke. The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise. Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.

What terrible things we do to those we love!

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.

I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented.

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do. -Teachings of the Golden Path, Bene Gesserit Archives

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.

A certain amount of killing has always been an arm of business