Quotes About Conflict

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Finding Money Maturity means resolving your inner conflicts around money. It really comes down to discovering a sense of ease around money.

was fighting his mind first, and his fear of admitting the existence of an identifiable enemy element that was oppressing us because that would either commit him to attack that enemy or force him to admit his cowardice.

In the words of Chinese Zen master Layman P'ang (c. 740–808 A.D.): My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.

The Empire Strikes Back

Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder.

England was a menace to Scotland because Scotland was, by its separate existence, a constant anxiety to England.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

The Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.