Quotes About Strife

The wounds of this ruptured nation lie open and ugly.

We try to reason with one another, but only manage to tear ourselves apart.

when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

Destruction was easier than preservation, and when destruction had risen high enough, mere men and women could not be condemned if they failed to throw back the tide.

More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us.

so long as the earth was inhabited by people, there would be no calm place.

Genetic individuality gives us our different tastes and needs, and it also sets the stage for strife.

People seek revenge by an accounting that exaggerates their innocence and their adversary's malice; when two sides seek perfect justice, they condemn themselves and their heirs to strife.

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

War…next to love, has most captured the world's imagination

It's no wonder that people will fight to protect something that saves them from being possessed by emotions of chaos and terror (and after that from degeneration into strife and combat).

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

From hence, let fierce contending nations knowWhat dire effects from civil discord flow.

when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife,O, let me lead an academic life;To know much, and to think for nothing, knowNothing to have, yet think we have enow.

Before all is peaceful, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red. What horror still lay in wait for ThunderClan?

If we don't end war, war will end us. —H. G. Wells

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.