Quotes About Conflict

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.