"Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense."

Conflict, Gender, Power, Emotion

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"Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense."

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"War grows out of ordinary human nature."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Conflict, War, Human, Nature

"Don't hate the Muslims or Islam. Hate if you must, the fundamentalists who consistently compel the human society to turn away from even the peace loving Muslims. However, the term hate would be an understatement when we are referring to the fundamentalists. The fundamentalists are the biggest enemies of the human race. Without the presence of the fundamentalist inspiration, no violence in the name of religion shall ever fester on this planet. People from all religious, spiritual and non-religious background shall live in harmony, enriching each other's lives, if there are no fundamentalists to divide them apart."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Conflict, Truth, Power, Regret, Inspirational

"What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?"

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Conflict, Choice, Satisfaction, Risk

"There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Conflict, Thought, Mind, Decision

"Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Conflict, Justice, Tension, Power

"We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Conflict, War, Heart, Land, Loss

"Life is a struggle with innerself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Conflict, Struggle, Innerself, Life, Battle

"While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Conflict, Peace, War, Heaven, Earth

"How did the war creep up? How did it gather itself together? What was it made from? What secrets, lies, betrayals? What loves and hatreds? What sums of money, what metals?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Conflict, War, Secrets, Betrayal, History

"An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Conflict, Consequence, Anger, Strategy, Danger

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"The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious."

Psychology

"One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions."

Ethics

"The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason."

Education

"Immortality is a chancy thing, it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is."

Philosophy

"What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing."

Nostalgia

"Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!"

Identity

"Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without."

Self

"In the end, all disguises must drop."

Philosophy

"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."

Immortality

"So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste."

Life