Quotes About Strife

Why are men ever at war? For power and greed and to enforce their own views on others.

What is any war but a massacre?

By its very nature, the dark side invites rivalry and strife. This is the greatest strength of the Sith: it culls the weak from our order.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

These officials changed names they couldn't pronounce and tore people from their families, consigning to a return voyage old folks, people with bad eyes, riffraff and also those who looked insolent. Such power was dazzling. The immigrants were reminded of home. " Ragtime

When the mind is running your life, conflict, strife, and problems are inevitable.

When the mind is running your life, conflict, strife, and problems are inevitable. Being in touch with your inner body creates a clear space of no-mind within which the relationship can flower.

ARES (MARS) The God of War, son of Zeus and Hera, both of whom, Homer says, detested him. Indeed, he is hateful throughout the Iliad, poem of war though

the bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.

Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.

The punch was getting to them, their faces redder and small tiffs between couples

Ved cómo el odio y las luchas entre familias a nada conducen, más que al miedo, la locura y la muerte y cierto es que en muchos años que combatí junto a los míos contra nuestros eternos enemigos […], jamás vi nada bueno que lo justificase, porqué las rapiñas de unos con las rapiñas de otros se pagan, y los muertos de cada bando no tienen precio, sino que como una cadena van arrastrando nuevos muertos.

The pot that had simmered for fifty years boiled over. Colliers and miners, furnacemen and tram-road labourers were flooding down the valley to the Chartists' rendezvous: men from Dowlais under the Guests, Cyfartha under the Crawshays, Nantyglo under Bailey and a thousand forges and bloomeries in the hills: men of the farming Welsh, the Staffordshire specialists and the labouring Irish were taking to arms.

But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves

We are not the doctors. We are the disease

What dire offense from amorous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

It often seems... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love.

We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Het enige dat de mensen verbindt zijn de oorlogen die ze elkaar aandoen.

In our society, we've become content with fighting against things. Fighting against cancer, fighting against poverty, fighting against war, fighting against drugs, fighting against terrorisim, fighting against violence. We tend to fight everything we don't want, which actually creates more of a fight.