330 quotes found
“Ethnic conflict is a line between religion and stupidity.”
“Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There a...”
“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”
“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by cer...”
“Allan interrupted the two brothers by saying that he had been out and about in the world and if there was one thing he had learned it was that the very biggest and apparently most impossible confli...”
“Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it ...”
“Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reached it, Curley bounced in."You seen a girl around here?" he demanded angrily.George said coldly, ...”
“But my brain winds and wends. Back and forth. Up and down. It feels like the county fair has inhabited my mind-- complete with sketchy rides, carnies, and sugar-amped kids crying over lost balloons...”
“Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.”
“A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all."The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that din...”
“I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.”
“Enmeshed in collective hatred and anger, each side proclaims the crimes of the other and its own righteousness, is unable to listen to the others suffering, and cannot look at the deeper roots of t...”
“its like the British in Ireland in 1916 , says Oisir ODowd. The repeated the ageless macho mantra, Force is the only thing these natives understand, so often that they ended up believing it . From ...”
“I was hell-bent on being an effective humanitarian in Cambodia and Somalia. But a nave fog is finally lifting. Revealed is a train wreck of illusions, the depravity of someone else's war, the futil...”
“When you confront, you are trying to avoid a conflict.”
“Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad.”
“An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that w...”
“How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and coul...”
“A life without a storm would lack drama. Pounding waves of a tempestuous sea test a persons mettle. A fearless sailor climbs the rigging and shouts out at the top of their lungs into the wind and r...”
“There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.”
