Quotes About Conflict

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.