Quotes About Conflict

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?