Quotes About Conflict

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

I have a conflict of interest in environmental conservation.

Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation].

Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.

If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.

Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle

And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man's finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations.

She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless.

Still, he was angry--that particular anger of humans defied by the persistence of nature.

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

Man will destroy what man fears!

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.