Quotes About Conflict

If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying praises to the devil, I say.

For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

Someone has described religious warfare as "killing people over who has the best invisible friend.

Every once in a while, tempers would flare, but we figured out how to settle those disputes as well—after all, there was no referee to decide the outcome. You would stand up for yourself on some occasions if you had to. One way or another, every kid who laces up a pair of skates in a shinny game learns that backing down almost never helps. But it also doesn't take long to figure out that if you play by the spirit of the rules, there is usually not much trouble.

Some people after taking my lessons they go back yard and sort their issues, but instead of thanking me they rather start a war against me -Bobi Wine

Detta krig som jag har utkämpat mot kroppen, denna medfödda motsättning mellan själ och kropp. [...] Kriget är över nu, jag vann och jag gratulerar mig till segern även om den kom väl sent.

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.

You're not supposed to have salt." "I'm not supposed to have cancer, either. If you don't bring me some brandy, I'm kicking you off my property.

reasonableness and positivity can feel like a kind of bullying.

My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.

Though class lines had been erased at the pool, race lines hardened even further, resulting in riots and racial segregation.

Religion often gets in the way of God.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

Failure is when you give your enemies the confirmation, they were right all along to have you in their shit list

Religion and religious hatred are one of the best ways for thickening darkness. - Book of Consolation, 5.9

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

Thus began the Great Tar Fight...

Never in the field of human conflict has) So much been owed by So many to So few. If you want a classic ascending tricolon, then try his peerless line from 1942, after the victory at El Alamein. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. When he uncorks this one at the

These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.

without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

On ne reste pas parce qu'on aime certaines personnes; on s'en va parce qu'on en déteste d'autres. Il n'y a que le moche qui vous fasse agir. On est lâches.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. — John Stuart Mill

You cannot imagine how much the presidents of the entire world hate each other.