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Quotes About Conflict

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
~ Thomas Jefferson
And where love ends, hate begins
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
~ Jay Inslee
Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.
~ Soman Chainani
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
~ Mason Cooley
It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.
~ Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.
~ Sandro Veronesi, Quiet Chaos
I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.
~ Mason Cooley
Which isn't the truth, you understand. At least you understand that in your head...but not always in your heart.
~ Stephen Leigh
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
~ Andre Gide
I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
~ Andrew Sullivan
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.
~ Bob Dylan
Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.
~ Bob Saget
The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
~ Dean Koontz
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
~ Deborah Harkness
The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
~ Harold Prince
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
~ Jeff Greenfield
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.
~ Jimmy Fallon
It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.
~ John le Carre
Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
~ John Stuart Mill