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Quotes About Conflict

I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.
~ Nora Roberts
Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.
~ P. D. James
A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
~ Patricia McCormick
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
~ Patrick Ness
when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.
~ Peggy Noonan
Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.
~ Publilius Syrus
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
~ Publilius Syrus
I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
~ Oliver Stone
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
~ Ouida
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
~ Raymond Chandler
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
~ Rebecca West
War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
~ Rex Stout
If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
~ Richard Dawkins
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.
~ Robert Graves
It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---
~ Robert Jordan
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.
~ Henry Adams
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
~ Henry David Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
~ Henry Rollins
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
~ Henry Ward Beecher