Quotes About Strife

Grownups killing each other

Not only were the couples unhappy from their respective fights, they are now even more unhappy as a result of comparing themselves with the other couple!

Having many enemies means having no peace.

Do you encounter a great deal of . . . factionalism in your area of the colony?

There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

I don't want a "holy" life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

This is an era of violent peace.

The world is too violent right now.

Our country is pathologically violent.

Despite what one might gather from the shrill rantings of the leftist commentariat, for whom religion is a sort of disease, religious difference in the United States has rarely led to serious social strife. That is no small achievement, and one that virtually no other Western democracy can boast.

Matthew 10:36," he'd said. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Never forget that, Agent Lacoste.

Matthew 10:36. 'And a man's foes shall be they of his own household