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Quotes About Conflict

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
~ Buffalo Bill
Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
~ Wayne Allard
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
~ Al Sharpton
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
~ Albert Camus
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
~ Alexander Hamilton
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
~ Alexander Pope
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
~ Alva Myrdal
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Evils draw men together.
~ Aristotle
You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.
~ Ashley Walters
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
~ Branch Rickey
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
~ Buffalo Bill
On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
~ Buffalo Bill
Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty
~ Cate Tiernan
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
~ Clarence Darrow
An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.
~ Clint Smith
'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!
~ Dave Grohl
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
~ Democritus
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
~ Edmund Leach
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.
~ Elvis Presley