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Quotes About Conflict

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
~ Seneca the Younger
Many a man's tongue broke his nose.
~ Seumas MacManus
I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
~ Shana Alexander
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.
~ Sheila Rowbotham
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
~ Sophocles
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
~ Sydney J. Harris
War among men defiles this world.
~ T. S. Eliot
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
~ Tacitus
A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.
~ Ted Nugent
The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
~ Thomas Carlyle
War ought to be no man's wish.
~ Thomas Paine
Wars are begun by frightened men.
~ Tom Clancy
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
~ Victor Hugo
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
~ William Allen White
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
~ Abraham Lincoln
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
~ Albert Camus
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
~ Aldous Huxley
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.
~ Alexander MacLaren
But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.
~ Brom
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
~ Carl Sandburg
Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.
~ Steve Winwood
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
~ Thor Heyerdahl