Conflict Quotes

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow; he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself." "Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?" "Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there’s not enough material." "Enemies are so stimulating. " "The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving " "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes" "I do not love you except because I love you" "Oh the mad coupling of hope and force in which we merged and despaired" "I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against." "Ideas are not susceptible to the force of bayonets " "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." "Only the dead have seen the end of war " "Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional " "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his" "Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men" "Even without wars, life is dangerous and broken enough. Even in the ordinary, an ordinary life is filled with ordinary wars." "I told it not, my wrath did grow " "The function of evil is to divide, separate" "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." "As a poet, I should like to say that my only argument is with those who do not interest me, and that I can have no quarrel with those who do."