Deadly Conflict Quotes

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

Just how many infants we will put to the sword is not yet clear. There is dickering to do. Those involved will take this disgrace to their graves.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

When Love And Jealousy Collide On The Slopes, Winter Break Turns Deadly

Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.