Quotes About Strife

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

Near a war is always not very near.

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

War is the father and king of all.

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

There is no life in war; there is life only in peace.

Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

Those who start wars, never fight them, And those who fight wars, they never like them...

When people go at war they cheapen things.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.