Quotes About Strife

Emotion has become a disease with you," said Platon. "You seek your own troubles, and make your own anxieties.

Créame, Paviel Ivanovich, que mientras no se abandone aquello por lo que se devoran y se matan la gente en la tierra, y mientras no se piense en el bienestar espiritual, no habrá felicidad ni bienestar en la tierra.

True, the annals of humankind appear rife with violence. But, Gandhi contended, this was an optical illusion fostered by scribes and scholars who, by virtue of their profession, took note of the exceptions to the rule: "History is really a record of every interruption of the even working of the force of love or of the soul."3

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

It seems at times that strife can no more be separated from monotheism than stripes from a tiger.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse, which are things that are more important than material things. They are the things that we should magnify.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.

Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.

For a tribe to endure, it must find some way to achieve internal unity—and that way usually is external strife.

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

Arrogance leads only to strife, but wisdom is with the well-advised.

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.