Quotes About Conflict

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.

It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.

Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.