Quotes About Conflict

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.

They had a big court battle over who got to keep me. Mom won; she made me live with Dad.

Your mom's in our business...she's in our business... Can't you see, girl, that your mom's trying to end this?