Quotes About Strife

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

the American cowboy was born of Reconstruction and carried all the hallmarks of the strife of the immediate postwar years: he was a hardworking white man who started from nothing, asked for nothing, and could rise on his own. The reality was that about a third of all cowboys were men of color—black or Mexican, and sometimes Indian—and that few rose to prosperity.

The wars didn't begin and end - it seemed that the times of peace did.

tangled and eternal as Appalachian feuds – are internecine

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Dream for a moment's space of care and strife, Wake, stare, and smile, and that is human Life.

Humanity must perforce prey upon itself, like monsters of the deep," a

The difference between the two sides of the schism, is that one side puts out fires, and the other starts them.

If everyone fought with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

O weary heart and hand,     Go bravely to the strife— No victory is half so grand     As that which conquers life! One day shall yet be thine—     The day that waits for all Whose prayerful eyes are things divine     When evening shadows fall.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

When anybody could tell, nobody was ever going to give fucking peace a chance.

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

People have been upset about the tenor and discord in Washington for a really long time.

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

So we had the classic Italian compromise, a theater of strife when all was actually agreed. Anarchy is rare in Italy, but legality is always up for renegotiation, especially if you can present yourself as hard done by

In all my life I have never experienced such orgies of murder, arson and looting as I have witnessed during the past 16 days with the RIC Auxiliaries. It baffles description. And we are supposed to be officers and gentlemen.

The German settlers would defend Europe itself at the Ural Mountains, against the Asiatic barbarism that would be forced back to the east. Strife at civilization's edge would test the manhood of coming generations of German settlers.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Life cannot be known by the "mind," its secrets cannot be learned through the "mind." The proof is, the ceaseless strife and contradiction of opinion among those who trust in the mind. Much less can the "mind" know itself, the more so, because it is pervaded by the illusion that it truly knows, truly is.

Tensions on both sides are already high

Since the beginning of religious history, our species has been caught in a never-ending cross fire –atheists, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, the faithful of all religions– and the only thing that unites us all is our deep longing for peace.