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Quotes About Strife

Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.
~ Oswald Spengler
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
~ Will Durant
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
~ Alexander Pope
If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
~ Harry S. Truman
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
War is nothing but organized murder.
~ Harry Patch
War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.
~ Philip Berrigan
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
~ Victor Hugo
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
~ Raymond Aron
What's so civil about war anyway?
~ Axl Rose
The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.
~ William Dean Howells
You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.
~ Zoroaster
A severe war lurks under the show of peace.
~ Claudius Claudianus
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
~ Abraham Cowley
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.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
An organism at war with itself is doomed.
~ Carl Sagan
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.
~ Ted Nugent
This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.
~ Henry Van Dyke
There's no war that will end all wars.
~ Haruki Murakami
War is the science of destruction.
~ John S. C. Abbott
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
~ Robert Byrd
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
~ Pope John Paul II