Quotes About Strife

All the evil in the world derives from the actions of men acting in a mass against other masses of men.

Competition is a sin.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

As the world continues to find new ways to tear itself apart, humans still love, hate, feel rejected and yarn to be close to someone.

In the still of the night, in the world's ancient light Where wisdom grows up in strife My bewildering brain, toils in vain Through the darkness on the pathways of life Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air Tomorrow keeps turning around We live and we die, we know not why But I'll be with you when the deal goes down...

Trump just loved to pit people against each other.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Meanwhile the substance of our first act Will be shadows, and the strife with shadows.

Men do not manage well with too much peace. Someone will find a quarrel.

You make serious enemies when you turn on your own kind.

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

Il en fut de [la] guerre [de sécession] comme de toutes les guerres. Les civils se haïssent, les soldats se battent. Seuls les civils demeurent irréconciliables.

The limitations of necessity made him free. He loved the necessity which exercised his faculties, and brought before his vision what he loved to see. he could have done nothing in other surroundings. Prostitutes were his sisters, and working men his brothers. Like them he was an outcast- an outcast who knew the peace of that despair which has long since given up useless strife.

War, pestilence, famine, environmental collapse; vast migrations and fanaticism of every stripe; a world de-civilized as the earth's peoples, sworn to competing gods, turned upon one another:

Here they fight with messers. God help them.

Iraq is falling apart.

The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The universe is bad; and men are fools, never really all on the same side in any war.

The darkling plain is here. This is the waste land: England, America, Russia, China, Israel, France.... And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetrators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliation.

Trask cleared his throat noisily. "Enough with the blix-unicorn rivalry.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.