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Quotes About Strife

After more than five years of strife in the name of freedom, tens of millions of people were merely to exchange one tyranny for another. Some
~ Max Hastings
Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart's hatred on one another." "But
~ Unknown
You will pit one family, gathering, community, and nation against another until all are destroyed.
~ Unknown
Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
fought, it was usually more trouble than it was
~ Unknown
Human society has been mostly an immoral violent bedlam,
~ Michael Finkel
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife. —Heraclitus (c. 540–c. 480 B.C., Greek philosopher)
~ Unknown
These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.
~ Michelle Moran
People who aren't full of the love of Christ love strife and salacious news;
~ Unknown
Autumn passed, and winter came, and events of little consequence caused great commotions.
~ Unknown
In less well-ordered families a great deal of energy is expended in constant negotiations and strife, and in the children's attempts to protect their fragile selves from being overwhelmed by other people's goals.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How then does every man kill his brother?
~ Unknown
A man strikes his maternal brother.
~ Unknown
See, the Serpent is taken from its hole, The secrets of Egypt's kings are bared. See, the residence is fearful from want. Men stir up strife unopposed. See, the land is tied up in gangs, The coward is emboldened to seize his goods. See, the Serpent the dead. He who could not make a coffin owns a tomb. See, those who owned tombs are cast on high ground, He who could not make a grave owns a treasury. See now, the transformations of people, He who did not build a hut is an owner of coffers.
~ Unknown
War is the biggest ego trip of all time.
~ Unknown
Love is the cause of all the wars and fighting in the world, perhaps, the whole universe.
~ Unknown
To sin is to declare war on the universe and to bring disorder to the world.
~ Unknown
Cuando los arcángeles juegan, los mortales sufren.
~ Nalini Singh
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
~ Napoleon Hill
You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.
~ Neal Shusterman
Human-to-human cruelty is worse than that of beast to human. Worse still is the cruelty among neighbors when it drives them To raise machetes, spears, arrows, and clubs against one another.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
There's sometimes an impulse to pit the suffering of the white working class against that of African Americans or members of other minority groups. That is a mistake. Government policies have poorly served the working class of every complexion, and we need solidarity rather than strife among those so overlooked.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Peace does not flourish except among moribund nations. Under the sun of iron hegemonies.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...
~ Nikola Tesla