Quotes About Strife

When you think about how many wars are created through the word religion it's hard to identify with it, or even accept it.

War is like air, in every house, in every land, on every sea.

Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat

No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.

History is the register of the strife of authorities.

History is the register of the strife of authorities. Always and everywhere man takes possession of man to bend him to his will and adapt him to his designs; so that society is seen to be a galaxy of authorities which arise, grow, and fight each other.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

When you're in a bad situation, when you're losing, every day is tough.

Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause.

Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could have no difficulty in exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined: "Be careful not to waste your life where strife & quarrelling are rife; keep well away from fractious fools.

Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.