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Quotes About Conflict

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
~ Bias of Priene
Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.
~ Carl Jung
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
~ Sakya Pandita
A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
~ Whittaker Chambers
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
~ James Thurber
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
~ Laozi
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.
~ Lee Child
What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!
~ Charles Dickens
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
~ Fannie Hurst
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.
~ George Grosz
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.
~ Carole King
Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
~ Louis L'Amour
A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.
~ Laozi
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
~ Stanley Baldwin
Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight
~ Toyohiko Kagawa
Brave men die in battle.
~ William Rosecrans
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades
~ George Orwell
It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
~ Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.
~ Adolf Hitler
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
~ Aristotle
When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.
~ Ayrton Senna
But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
~ C. S. Lewis
There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
~ C. S. Lewis