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Quotes About Conflict

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.
~ Lynn Viehl
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.
~ Malcolm X
It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.
~ Malcolm X
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.
~ Maria McCann
When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.
~ Martina Navratilova
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.
~ Matthew Hale
A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.
~ Matthew Polly
I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.
~ Matthew Sweet
Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren't attracted to me.
~ Maya Banks
Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You say you're a Christian, Cause God made you, You say you're a Muslim, Cause God made you, You say you're a Hindu and the next man a Jew, Then we all kill each other, Cause God told us to? Nah!..
~ Michael Franti
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.
~ Nalini Singh
Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.
~ Neil Gaiman