Quotes About Strife

There is no good war.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.

All everyone is trying to do is create a better life for the human race. Why can't everyone stop fighting and start working together to accomplish that?

For a little reward, people make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarcely lift a foot off the ground. They seek poor rewards of money in their shameful strife. For a trivial promise, people will work day and night.