Quotes About Conflict

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

The United States could well declare unilaterally that this stage of the Vietnam war is over—that we have "won" in the sense that our Armed Forces are in control of most of the field and no potential enemy is in a position to establish its authority over South Vietnam.

Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

George Armstrong Custer

All quiet along the Potomac.

the politicians have inherited the stone age syndrome of the tribal chieftains, who take for granted that they can rule their people only by making them hate and fight all other tribes," Alfvén continued. "If we have the choice of being governed by problem generating trouble makers, or by problem solvers, every sensible man of course would prefer the latter.

If you consider how most churches deliver content—appointing one person as the authority and encouraging everyone else to sit (consume) quietly while he or she speaks—it is easy to see how that delivery system may come into conflict with changing cultural expectations.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.