Quotes About Conflict

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

He that is not in the war is not out of danger.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

In my business, you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs-to kill people and to destroy the works of man.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

International sport is war without shooting.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.