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Quotes About Strife

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.
~ Marianne Curley, The Key
One thing hatred can do very well is to attack what it hates!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.
~ Anike Kirsten
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
~ John Avlon
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~ Alexander Pope
He that seeks trouble always finds it.
~ English proverb
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
~ Beatrix Potter
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
~ William Butler Yeats
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life.
~ William Cowper
There is nothing, next Christ and heaven, that the devil grudged believers more than their peace and mutual love.
~ William Gurnall
You have seen, that the Properties of Nature are, and can be, nothing else in their own Life, but a restless Hunger, Disquiet, and blind Strife for they know not what, till the Property of Light and Love has got Possession of them.
~ William Law
The fault of opposition", he remarked, "is a determination to make differences where few exist and those trifling.
~ David Cecil
People always make war when they say they love peace.
~ David Herbert Lawrence
I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.
~ Zelo
I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.
~ Elayne Boosler
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
~ Anne Hutchinson
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
~ Tertullian
The hideous god of war.
~ William Shakespeare
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.
~ William Shakespeare
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
~ Lady Gregory