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Quotes About Strife

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
~ Alexander Pope
Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.
~ William Butler Yeats
Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
~ Ivo Andric
Each day there's a decision that each of us has to make, for each of us needs to decide for ourselves, whether to give or to take, whether to love or reject love, whether to bring peace or strife. And that is the daily decision, that affects the whole rest of our lives!
~ Unknown
Man will be the death of life yet.
~ Morrie Schwartz
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts
~ Unknown
Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.
~ Unknown
Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.
~ Marcus Aurelius
So long as the desires of freedom, peace, and to know stuff exists it will eventually beget drama.
~ Unknown
War is just a damn nuisance.
~ Unknown
By the time of Santokh Singh's death Bhindranwale's men were known to have killed two policemen and ten civilians, attempted to murder a senior civil servant and planted a bomb in the office of a deputy inspector-general of police. There had been several other bomb explosions and attempts to derail trains, one successful. An airliner had been hijacked
~ Unknown
What is wedlock forced but a hell, an age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss and is a pattern of celestial peace.
~ William Shakespeare
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
~ Samuel Davies
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
~ George Santayana
The only true reason why men fight wars. Love.
~ Unknown
what I am after in this dispute is to me something serious, necessary, and indeed eternal, something of such a kind and such importance that it ought to be asserted and defended to the death, even if the whole world had not only to be thrown into strife and confusion, but actually to return to total chaos and be reduced to nothingness.
~ Martin Luther
I stand upon the downs of life, And watch two barks of Fate sail in; The waves and winds are all at strife, I sadly wonder who will win.
~ Unknown
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
~ Washington Irving
But often in the world's most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspeakable desireAfter the knowledge of our buried life.
~ Matthew Arnold
The day in its hotness,The strife with the palm;The night in her silence,The stars in their calm.
~ Matthew Arnold
But somebody sure as hell's trying to start a war in this country. Liberal against conservative, city against country, pro-gun against gun control, pro-government against pro-freedom, black against white against brown, Christian against Muslim… There's no other explanation that makes sense.
~ Unknown
To fish in troubled waters.
~ Matthew Henry
Somehow Luke understood - in a way that Lando never had, that Hand and Leia and Chewbacca had simply never grasped - just how dark a place the universe really was. Lando guessed that was where Luke got his humility. His kindness. His gentle faith that people could change for the better. That must have been why he rarely smiled, and almost never made jokes. Because the goodness was all he really had. It was his lifeline. The rope to which he clung, dangling over the abyss.
~ Matthew Stover
Es imposible impedir la guerra cuando los ejércitos comenzaron a marchar.
~ Maurice Druon