Quotes About Strife

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Behind many of our besetting sins and personal failures, behind the many ills that infect our church fellowships and clog the channels of Christian service—the clash of personalities and temperaments, the strife and division—lies that insidious pride of the human heart.

Vinieron la Verdad y la Justicia a la tierra; la una no halló comodidad por desnuda, ni la otra por rigurosa. Anduvieron mucho tiempo así, hasta que la Verdad, depuro necesitada, asentó con un mudo. La Justicia, desacomodada, anduvo por la tierra rogando a todos, y viendo que no hacían caso de ella y que le usurpaban su nombre para honrar tiranías, determinó volverse huyendo al Cielo.

Son unos pueblos a los que Dios ha distinguido particularmente con la turbulencia y la ignorancia, y a los que en su totalidad ha marcado con la hostilidad y la violencia.

The problem with this war is not the war itself, it is the mayhem it brings.

recaudadores, magistrados, escribanos y sanguijuelas sin recato, y las grandes hazañas dieron paso a la dominación sin escrúpulos, los andrajos, el bandidaje y la miseria, que abonarían disturbios y sublevaciones sangrientas

Las guerras civiles son otra cosa. El salvajismo llevado al extremo. La ausencia de reglas

Those who don't know how to make love, make war.

ceux qui ne savent pas faire l'amour, font la guerre.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

If thou shalt aspire after the glorious acts of men, thy working shall be accompanied with compunction and strife, and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings; and justly doth it come to pass towards thee, O man, that since thou, which art God's work, doest him no reason in yielding him well-pleasing service, even thine own works also should reward thee with the like fruit of bitterness.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

How is it possible to have a civil war?

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

I think a lot of folks are beginning to feel that the forces that are tearing us apart in this country are stronger than the forces that tie us together. I don't believe that.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.

Let my enemies devour each other

When civil fury first grew high,And men fell out they knew not why.

There ain't nothing like religion to bring out the worst in folks.