Quotes About Strife

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Today, death is your opponent.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

Any unrest and any strife can be borne, as I have already said, if we find peace where we live; but if we would have rest from the thousand trials which afflict us in the world and the Lord is pleased to prepare such rest for us, and yet the cause of the trouble is in ourselves, the result cannot but be very painful, indeed almost unbearable.

And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

There's no love lost between me and Mitt Romney.

War is not a state of being. It is meant to be a temporary chaos between periods of peace. Some want it to be a course of things: a default fact of existence. But I will not let that be so.

War is not a state of being. It is meant to be a temporary chaos between periods of peace. Some want it to be the course of things: a default fact of existence.