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Quotes About Strife

Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
When people are wary about fighting on the ground, I have a more difficult time.
~ Frank Mir
Can you not see that it's no longer a question of dragon versus human? The division now is between those who think this peace is worth preserving and those who would keep us at war until one side or the other is destroyed.
~ Rachel Hartman
Life is strife for every man, for every son of thunder; Then be a lion not a lamb, and don't be trampled under.
~ Ragnar Redbeard
the British adroitly played Indians against fellow-Indians. Obligingly, Indians betrayed one another.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Hindu-Muslim clashes occurred in the 1880s and 1890s in the towns of Multan, Isa Khel (Mianwali district), Dera Ghazi Khan, Delhi, Rohtak and Ludhiana.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Iroquois had shed the blood of their brothers; the League of the Six Nations had been torn apart by the white man's war. Iroquois warriors were no longer observers to the contest, nor incidental participants. Senecas and Oneidas alike suddenly embraced the war as their own and sought revenge for their losses.
~ Ray Raphael
the American Revolution was our first civil war, pitting neighbors against neighbors and splitting families apart.
~ Ray Raphael
In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.
~ Raymond Aron
creciente ira y el descontento entre los judíos.
~ Reza Aslan
Sie würden ihm helfen, ihn heilen. Arzneien und Ärzte. Eine Änderung der Einstellung. Dann Frieden. Seine Streitsüchtigkeit würde wie Unkraut aus ihm herausgejätet werden.
~ Richard Bachman
savored the bizarre moment of epiphany; he had a sister, of sorts. And he had a wife, too, and a father, a legal one, and he had brothers. He was like any other man. The out-of-reach normal life that had tormented him was now fully his. It was wonderful, even if very few beings had a family as strife-prone, heavily armed, and bizarre as this. "But he never forgets his kids." "I always knew he'd come back.
~ Karen Traviss
War among men defiles this world.
~ T. S. Eliot
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
~ Victor Hugo
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
~ Homer
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
~ H. L. Mencken
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
~ Albert Einstein
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
~ Unknown
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
~ Alexander Pope
When the old men fight, the young people die.
~ Anne Fortier
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
~ Charles Churchill
Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.
~ D. H. Lawrence