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Quotes About Conflict

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.
~ Jonathan Haidt
The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence.
~ Junot Diaz
Argument is not always truth.
~ Lajos Kossuth
Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
~ Paul Fussell
Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces.
~ Paul Virilio
In quarreling, the truth is always lost.
~ Publilius Syrus
In excess altercation, truth is lost.
~ Publilius Syrus
And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas...
~ Rachel Vincent
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
~ Shailer Mathews
Not that I've ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren) That's the truth. I swear he's half beta fish. He'd fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
~ Thom Yorke
I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.
~ William Butler Yeats
When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!
~ William Shakespeare
The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.
~ Monika Ramzy
There are always two sides to a story.
~ Una McCormack
The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.
~ E'yen A. Gardner, Love Letters
I'm a lover not a fighter. But when I have to fight, I fight to win. There cannot be another outcome.
~ TemitOpe Ibrahim
Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.
~ M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
Mary, ' said her mother. 'We don't like sarcasm ' 'You mightn't like it, ' said Mary. 'But I love it.
~ Roddy Doyle