Conflict Quotes

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

Shall we upon the footing of our landSend fair-play orders, and make compromise,Insinuation, parley, and base truce,To arms invasive?

Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

Good words are better than bad strokes.

The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly veryfriendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

Russia isn't going to start a war. They can't afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world... the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people's lives.

Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.