Quotes About Strife

war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other." The

You seem to be very good at making enemies.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything.

Both choices led to social unrest: the Jacquerie (France, 1358), the Revolt of Ciompi (Florence, 1378), the Peasants' Revolt (England, 1381), the Catalonian Rebellion (Spain, 1395), and dozens of flare-ups in the German states.

2470 He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

In point of fact, the racism on the campuses is greater than that in the larger society in many campuses. And what I worry about is that they're going to graduate into the general society, blacks and whites alike, who hate each other's guts and who will be the new leaders of new racial strife for the future. (ca.1990)

is hard to imagine anything more conducive to unending internal strife and a weakening of the bonds that hold a society together. The tragic history of territorial irredentism offers little reason for optimism about moral irredentism.

I invested them with a bogus nobility. To a suburban kid they seemed so special, enduring, wild and stiff-necked, in amongst the ancient rocks and gnarled trees, and while it was true enough they carried their secret places in their bodies and in their language, many simply wore their ordinary, dreary undigested pasts like rain-sodden greatcoats and lived like cripples.

Family trouble was the worst kind. Some families ran their own little versions of the Middle East.

they failed to move on, as wars and animosity to those who were different or had different religious beliefs destroyed them.

He fought her the way a coward fights a man--with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth.

The wars that are to be feared the most and are the cruelest are the civil wars. Rome was never threatened as much by its [foreign] enemies such as Pyrrhus and Hannibal as it was by its own citizens.

but quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The seeds of war are oft planted during times of peace.

You each name yourself king, yet the kingdom bleeds and no one lefts a sword to defend it but my son.

One war ends, another begins.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

A plague o' both your houses.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Bottom line? The fabric of the race's society is going to unravel, and if you think that's going to help in the war, you've got your head so far up your ass you're using your colon as a mouthpiece.