Quotes About Conflict

Hate is not a good counselor.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.

My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.

His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.

What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hatred is settled anger.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self, a journey into our killer's desire.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

If thine enemy- be hungry, give him bread to eat.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.