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Quotes About Conflict

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
~ Tony Benn
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
~ Vladimir Lenin
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
~ Voltaire
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
~ Homer
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.
~ James Madison
Evil man make me kill you.
~ Jimi Hendrix
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
~ John Keegan
I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
~ Joseph Stalin
As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
~ Katie Price
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
~ Laozi
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
~ Charles Lamb
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
~ Elihu Root
From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
~ Martha Gellhorn
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.
~ Miguel
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
~ Nicolas Roeg
What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.
~ Pierre-Jean de Beranger
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
~ William Petty
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
~ Ahmed Yassin
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
~ Bob Dylan