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Quotes About Conflict

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.
~ Ronald Reagan
I don't like you, but I love you.
~ Smokey Robinson
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
~ Voltaire
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes
~ William Shakespeare
Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
~ George Herbert
Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
~ Germaine Greer
anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]
~ Gore Vidal
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
~ Graham Greene
'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'
~ H. G. Wells
With love I draw what I hate.
~ Harold Town
I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
~ Homer
I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why." Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)
~ J.R. Ward
I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.
~ James A. Baldwin
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Trump loves hate. Trump is afraid. Trump is always wrong.
~ Jean Dujardin
The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.
~ Jean-Jacques Annaud
When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore
~ Jennifer E. Smith
You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
~ Jenny Downham
Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti