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Quotes About Conflict

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
~ George Eliot
The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.
~ George Washington
Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not for women but against men.
~ Karl Kraus
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
~ Albert Einstein
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
~ Angela Carter
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.
~ Art Buchwald
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?
~ Marie Corelli
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.
~ Michael Baden
There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
~ Neil Lowe
I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.
~ Penn Dayton Badgley
Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.
~ Philip K. Dick
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
~ Heraclitus
A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.
~ Irving Berlin
Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
~ Janet Morris
Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
~ Janet Morris
During war we imprison the rights of man.
~ Jean Giraudoux
I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
~ Jeannette Rankin
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
~ John Lennon
Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.
~ John Steinbeck