Quotes About Conflict

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.