Quotes About Conflict

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.