Quotes About Conflict

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

Watch it, ' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.

If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money.

Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.

Don't Raise your Anger into a War, Raise it into a Plan

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.