Quotes About Conflict

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.