#conflict

I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements—and found that they called themselves Gush Emunim or—it sounded just as bad in English—'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they took the land because god had given it to them from time immemorial. In the noisome town of Hebron, where all of life is focused on a supposedly sacred boneyard in a dank local cave, one of the world's less pretty sights is that of supposed yeshivah students toting submachine guns and humbling the Arab inhabitants. When I asked one of these charmers where he got his legal authority to be a squatter, he flung his hand, index finger outstretched, toward the sky. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#belarus #colonialism #god #guns #gush-emunim

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#conflict #despair #harshness #hell #industrialization

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. ↗

— Holly Black

#despair #sad #conflict

The course of true love never did run smooth said by lysander ↗

— William Shakespeare

#play #romance #love

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#confined #conflict #god #great #love

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#also #care #conflict #everyone #i

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#conflicts #greatest #himself #people #person

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#belief #between #conflict #detected #divorce

There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three. ↗

— David Zucker

#anymore #conflicts #out #three #together