Conflict Quotes

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

He who sling mud, lose ground.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I never take my own side in a quarrel.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid.I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

War leads to peace.[Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.

If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'Look, [Kanye West] called me and told me the line before it came out. Like, joke's on you guys, we're fine'.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

War is the father and king of all.

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less likely a future argument will take place on the same subject.

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

I'm not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.

The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!