Quotes About Strife

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.

In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

and listening to the jackals squabbling

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Pessimism is a sign of decay, optimism is a sign of superficiality; tragic optimism is the mood of the strong man who seeks intensity and extent of experience, even at the cost of woe, and is delighted to find that strife is the law of life.

Where there is no strife there is decay:

THERE IS A PLEASURE in philosophy, and a lure even in the mirages of metaphysics, which every student feels until the coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain.

Victory breeds hatred

War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

In the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no war

They accumulate A world in which Man is by his nature the enemy of Man

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

But what were these hopes in which he was disappointed? What were these wishes in which he was frustrated? What was that faith that was abused? They were surely among the most noble and benevolent instincts of the human heart—the love of peace, the toil for peace, the strife for peace, the pursuit of peace, even at great peril and certainly in utter disdain of popularity or clamor.

As the strife-ridden year of 1932 approached its end, Berlin was full of cabals, and of cabals within cabals.

Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.

the exponential pace of human expansion may be about to flatten into a logistic curve, with the limit being set by the finite dimension and resources of planet Earth. This enforced flattening, if it occurs naturally, is bound to be achieved at the cost of enormous human suffering through famine, deprivation, disease, environmental assaults, and internal strife.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

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

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

misadventures. 'A family', Johnson would later write, 'is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.'4

Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.

I didn't know I had a quarrel with him.