Quotes About Strife

We live in ugly times.

There are a lot of Korean films that will show marital strife, but I'm not sure I've seen so many that will show it in the interest of showing a real marriage - one that ultimately succeeds.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

The brazen throat of war.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

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

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.