Quotes About Strife

In war, people yearn for relief from strife, leading to peace. In peace, people yearn to champion what they love, leading to war.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure: No fears to beat away - no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may even be deemed self-indulgent.

It's a hard world for little things.

There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

These men, knowing full well that they were eyewitnesses to monumental events, read meaning and purpose into every detail of the surrender conference, and their accounts reveal that the seeds of continuing strife were sown at the very moment of Union victory and Confederate defeat.

Time and the Gods are at strife; ye dwell in the midst thereof, Draining a little life from the barren breasts of love.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. When they couldn't make war men made money - and trouble and a dreadful nuisance of themselves.

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as a single Arab nation, but due to the famous independent streak ingrained in the Arab personality, nothing came of those efforts. In fact, the Middle East has suffered from numerous uprisings, wars, and violent revolutions since the end of World War I right up to the present day.

ao passo que, pela inveja, pelo ciúme e pela ambição, tortura-se voluntariamente e assim aumenta as misérias e as angústias de sua curta existência.

For instance, it is quite clear now that all of the peoples of the earth have not always wished one another well. Indeed we are certain now, are we not, that so many people have wished us ill. They wish us ill. They have always done. They still do.

Political parties can be pretty internecine, and pretty savage.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going.

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.

A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.

We were going to kill ourselves in trying to kill each other.