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Quotes About Strife

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
~ Fredrik Bajer
For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.
~ Miriam Makeba
The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
~ Prem Rawat
I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.
~ John Corabi
Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.
~ Robert Dallek
Do you think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth? I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law' " (Mt 10:34–36).
~ Robert E. Barron
Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
~ Robert E. Lee
In a family there is always something or other going awry…
~ Robert Galbraith
Odat? demarat? relaÅ£ia, de ce e atât de greu sa te desparÅ£i de acest partener care te târ??te dup? el în etapele pline de suferin?? ale acestui dans distrug?tor? Regula de baz? este: cu cât e mai greu s? pui cap?t unei relaÅ£ii pernicioase, cu atât înseamn? c? ea înglobeaz? mai multe elemente ale luptei din copil?rie.
~ Robin Norwood
Revenge, greed, resentment, envy, and patriotism made for an inflammatory mix.
~ Ron Chernow
Our country is full of hatred and bitterness and talk."34
~ Ron Chernow
To sow discord and division.
~ Lee Child
Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a 'weakness'.
~ Dada Bhagwan
So long as there are men, there will be wars.
~ Albert Einstein
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
~ Douglas Feith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
~ Douglas MacArthur
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cupid "the little greatest enemy."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Conflict is the very essence of life.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
The last peace had created the conditions for the next war. Out of want came fear, out of fear came fury.
~ Jill Lepore
Even an undercurrent of division and strife will weaken that body of believers. The pastor of such a church ends up on a treadmill, expending a lot of effort and energy but making little progress.
~ Jim Cymbala
W)here there's drama, there's crap.
~ Jincy Willett
The day was ill-omened from the beginning; one of those unlucky days when every little detail seems to go wrong and one finds oneself engaged in a perpetual and infuriating strife with inanimate objects. How truly fiendish the sub-human world can be on these occasions! How every atom, every cell, every molecule, seems to be leagued in a maddening conspiracy against the unfortunate being who has incurred its obscure displeasure!
~ Anna Kavan