Quotes About Strife

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. But I will not let that be so.

Pretty small island if everybody fighting everybody.

was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.

When gods are contrary they stand by no one.

I am that poet who in times past made the light melody of pastoral poetry. In my next poem I left the woods for the adjacent farmlands, teaching them to obey even the most exacting tillers of the soil; and the farmers liked my work. But now I turn to the terrible strife of Mars.

Dread wars and outbursts of rage are dear to her heart

So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.

What she said in To the Lighthouse of Lily Briscoe's art she might have said of her own: that the pen was 'the one dependable thing in a world of strife, ruin, chaos . . .',73 and the godlike power she felt as a writer is perfectly embodied in a passage from that novel.

Violence: these days, it is all the rage

Every term of opprobrium that Álvares hurled at Magellan strengthened

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.

I am FREE from unforgiveness and strife. I forgive others as Christ has forgiven me, for the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost. (Matt. 6:12; Rom. 5:5.)

somewhere under the rage, there's something human. barely.

fratricidally

Life is full of crises, we all know that. It's how we learn, how we grow. They help form character, mould the man (or woman), as it were. As an opposite to good times, they even help us appreciate life a little more; and a person without strife is a person without passion, for trauma both tests and strengthens moral fibre, becomes a measure of human depth. There is no adversity on this earth that cannot be overcome with fortitude and positive will.

There can be no war to end wars, because all wars begin other wars. There can be no such thing as a war to save democracy, because all wars destroy democracy. There could have been a peace to save what was left of democracy, but the chance of that came and went in 1919—the saddest year in all the martyrdom of man.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries. [ Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803 ]

prophet. Trying to protect me from this life of greed. How

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

A species divided against itself will eventually fall.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.