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Quotes About Strife

I hate consensus. I like confrontation.
~ Geert Wilders
There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!
~ George MacDonald
Then go - but beware of private quarrels in such a season of strife. You two may meet some day in mortal conflict on the battlefield. For my part, I would rather slay my friend than my enemy.
~ George MacDonald
Unfortunately, to the ordinary people, war and peace were not very different. The trouble with all Anglo-Scottish wars was that no one ever won them; they were always liable to break out again.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.
~ George Orwell
It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool.
~ George Orwell
There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word—Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.
~ George Orwell
In spite of the strife the stars were bright as crystal.
~ George Saunders
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! ("The Testimony of the Suns")
~ George Sterling
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
~ Henry Rollins
First we are to seek peace in our local fellowship, to end strife and to seek reconciliation with God and with one another, and out of this peace-shaped, kingdom-shaped church we spill over peace into the world.
~ Scot McKnight
I'm Black. God knew my people would go through struggles so he gave us a lifetime supply of cool to compensate.
~ Scrubs
peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
~ Seamus Heaney
Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.
~ Janet Morris
Si lance was not quiet and calm, and it was not peace.
~ Markus Zusak
The world is boiling. You hardly dare open a paper these days: the news is all of cataclysm and collapse. Tempers are threadbare; the yobs are winning; everybody accepts the fact that they've got to get nastier in order to survive. The world is going bad on us. I'm having nothing to do with it.
~ Martin Amis
There is no gain without struggle.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pero ahora sé que nuestro mundo no es nunca más permanente que una ola que se eleva sobre el océano. Cualesquiera que sean nuestras luchas y nuestras victorias, comoquiera que las padezcamos, enseguida desaparecen en la corriente, como la tinta acuosa sobre el papel.
~ Arthur Golden
Omul gaseste adversari pretutindeni si moare cu armele in miini.Dar existenta noastra nu este posibila fara toate acestea
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In its death throes, we see religion clinging to morality, whose mother it would like to pretend to be. In vain! – genuine morality is dependent on no religion, although religion sanctions and thereby sustains it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Ah, what is then this earthly life, But grief, affliction and great strife? E'en when fairest it has seemed, Nought but pain it can be deemed.
~ August Strindberg
Men will find a reason to kill each other anywhere
~ Stephanie Barron
ERIS (DISCORDIA), Strife, lay behind all disagreements, divorces, scraps, skirmishes, fights, battles and wars. It was her malicious wedding present, the legendary Apple of Discord, that brought about the Trojan War
~ Stephen Fry