Quotes About Strife

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

il existait sans doute entre les inquiétes créatures humaines des répulsions et des haines surgies du plus profond de leur nature, et qui, le jour où il ne serait plus de mode de s'exterminer pour cause de religion, se donneraient cours autrement. (La promenade sur la dune)

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.

We are at the cross-ways. If we stand on in the old happy-go-lucky way, the richer classes ever growing in wealth and in number, and ever declining in responsibility, the very poor remaining plunged or plunging even deeper into helpless, hopeless misery, then I think there is nothing before us but savage strife between class and class. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, SPEECH AT LEICESTER, 1909

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

Given our disagreements over some points of the Bible, denominations are good, not bad, because they allow each church to follow Jesus according to conscience, and they keep strife between Christians of different convictions at bay. But if those denominations become the ultimate focus of our loyalty, then they are terrible idols. Keep clear fences but keep them low, and shake hands over them often.

Civil strife is caused not only by inequality of property, but also by inequality of honors

Les révolutions enracinent les bruits populaires et les haines. Le premier coup de fusil tiré, rien ne s'explique ; les passions s'exaltent et, ne pouvant s'entendre, on se tue.

The end of strife and conflict of all kinds had also meant the virtual end of creative art. There were myriads of performers, amateur and professional, yet there had been no really outstanding new works of literature, music, painting, or sculpture for a generation. The world was still living on the glories of a past that could never return.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction, Nicole said to herself. Not even when confronted by infinity.

Every day is kill-the-Americans day here.

Never to have been born is best. Everyone knows that, and a close second, once you have appeared in this life, is a quick return, as soon as you can, to where you came from. In our light-headed youth we carry blithe ideas, not knowing what blows await, what hardships are bearing down, closer and closer. Murder, hatred, strife, resentment, and envy are lurking, and then, behind them, bitter old age, powerless, friendless, with evils our only neighbors.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].

Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.

Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

the inadvertent by-product of the nobles' passionate pursuit of war.

As a result, the chief victim of the belligerents was their respective peasantry.

were being ravaged by her brother. In their agreement Amadeus

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

Harmony is boring.

Governments don't like harmony.