Quotes About Conflict

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

He that seeks trouble never misses.

Acho que é melhor nos separarmos e eu ir tocar minha música em outro lugar com todos os meus preconceitos burgueses de fidelidade.

Deine Sehnsucht war, mein Leben zu zerstören, und meine war es, mein Leben dir zum Trotz zu behaupten.

World history is tragic.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

Nationalism: a state of mind in which you do not love your own country as much as you hate somebody else's .

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Vielmehr stellt er auch die Bildung vor die Frage, wie der Konflikt zwischen Glaube und Wissen etwa durch gebildete Reflexion zumindest abgemildert werden kann.

Friedrich von Logau

Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.

We don't even use the word terror anymore. There's only 'man-made disasters' caused by disenfranchised groups who are really just 'misunderstood.

Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy "evil" outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.