Quotes About Strife

Strife's sister NEMESIS was the embodiment of Retribution, that remorseless strand of cosmic justice that punishes presumptuous, overreaching ambition – the vice that the Greeks called hubris.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

I love making people who already hate me hate me more.

human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence to one another.

He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife's hatred they are borne each of them apart.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another

there are those who are cursed to live in times when death seems to come out of season, when the winter of a man's life may leap upon him in the midst of summer greenness.

Before all is peacefull, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red

ShadowClan is turning into a bunch of fox-hearts." Bluefur

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism. Their life runs along that line where the overflow of the Nile meets the desert. It is the boundary line between sand and mud.

I've always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can't love be simple? Why can't it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can't live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?

He saw the world in which black people always suffered and he didn't like it. He saw a world in which human beings suffered so needlessly from Antipodes to Equator, and he didn't like it either. He saw our people drowning in poverty, in famine, drought, in divisiveness and the blood of war. He saw our people always preyed upon by other powers, manipulated by the Western world, our history and achievements rigged out of existence.

The fight against entropy is never over.

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Doth nought return-- Only a spear and sword, and ashes in an urn! For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War's money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear, Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul; Yea, fills the light urn full With what survived the flame-- Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

Drama holds you back.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.