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Quotes About Strife

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.
~ John C. Maxwell
Antagonism breeds extremism.
~ Émile Zola
And if history had taught any lessons it was that humans couldn't get along with anyone, even themselves.
~ Eoin Colfer
Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
is a Civill Warr with the Pen, which pulls out the sorde soon afterwards.
~ Amir Alexander
The horizontal quality of black life, that is, the smashed flat quality of life for the oppressed, proposes that we is all generally equally mashed.
~ Amiri Baraka
Why is there a struggle between capital and labor?
~ Amity Shlaes
No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
even if he wins six billion prize for peace, there will be no peace
~ AMYNE E. QASEM
Insane Europeans who plot to cut each others' throats, now that one and the same civilisation enfolds and unites them all!
~ Anatole France
Democrats hate Democrats most of all.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
~ Will Oldham
the recipe for disharmony was quick and easy: Just separate the participants into groups and let sit for a while in their own juices.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Whenever communities, families, nations, churches are divided, we sniff out the diabolic.
~ Robert Barron
Forgive me this digression that I stand Entranced awhile at Law's first beam, outbreak O' the business, when the Count's good angel bade "Put up thy sword, born enemy to the ear, "And let Law listen to thy difference!" And Law does listen and compose the strife, Settle the suit, how wisely and how well! On our Pompilia, faultless to a fault, Law bends a brow maternally severe, Implies the worth of perfect chastity, By fancying the flaw she cannot find.
~ Robert Browning
Born in strife, the original party of Russian Marxists died in schism.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Hence class struggle, of which the recent emergency measures were an expression, must be seen as a normal phenomenon under the NEP.
~ Robert C. Tucker
He will take you back, and he will destroy you. I bring change, Rand said sadly. Not peace, but turmoil. Destruction follows on my heels everywhere. Will there ever be anywhere I do not tear apart? What will be, will be, Rhuarc. I can't change it.
~ Robert Jordan
What I love, I destroy, Lews Therin laughed. What I destroy, I love.
~ Robert Jordan
Power of the Shadow made human flesh, wakened to turmoil, strife and ruin. The Reborn One, marked and bleeding, dances the sword in dreams and mist, chains the Shadowsworn to his will, from the city, lost and forsaken, leads the spears to war once more, breaks the spears and makes them see, truth long hidden in the ancient dream.
~ Robert Jordan
Love and war," he said, "are Earth's two staple commodities. We've been turning them both out in bumper crops since the beginning of time.
~ Robert Sheckley
naturally they hate each other to a high-frequency zing.
~ Robert Silverberg