Conflict Quotes

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”

“Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore”

“I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.”

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

“No, by my soul, I never in my lifeDid hear a challenge urged more modestly,Unless a brother should a brother dareTo gentle exercise and proof of arms.”

“The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.”

“Contention, like a horse,Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,And bears down all before him.”

“Light and lust are deadly enemies.”

“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.”

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

“I heard a bustling rumor like a fray,And the wind blows it from the Capitol.”

“Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.”

“Good words are better than bad strokes.”

“We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.”

“I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.”

“So shaken as we are, so wan with care,Find we a time for frighted peace to pantAnd breathe short-winded accents of new broilsTo be commenced in stronds afar remote.”

“War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.”

“Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.”

“I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.”

“... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.”

“Between the acting of a dreadful thingAnd the first motion, all the interim isLike a phantasma or a hideous dream.”

“All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.”

“This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.”

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”