Unending Conflict Quotes

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me.... It was never going to end, was it?

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

It's a dog-eat-dog world and in a man's world, too. It's just a fight, every single week, this job.

Are we to continue to struggle, as so many good men struggled in the first dozen centuries of Christendom -- spilling oceans of blood, wasting mountains of treasure -- to achieve what is at bottom a logical absurdity, to accomplish something which, when accomplished, can avail us nothing, and which, if it could avail us anything, would condemn the nations of the world to never-ending bloodshed

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.

All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

Mistrust and conflict form a self-reinforcing cycle in which the mistrust causes conflict that reinforces the mistrust

'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.