Quotes About Conflict

One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Communication is and should be hell fire and sparks as well as sweetness and light.

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

I love an opposition that has convictions.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached, but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.

They love him most for the enemies that he has made.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

All is fair in love and war.

To fish in troubled waters.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.