Quotes About Conflict

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not the great occasion, you don't get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace, no one would know his name now.

We dread war; but we follow Washington and Lincoln in dreading some things worse than war. Therefore we desire to prepare against war.

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character.

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

The past and the present kept smashing into each other in completely untenable ways.

But even though I like having sex with you, I think you're kind of a huge asshole, and I don't want to have to talk to you again.

I hate you, Asher Adams," she cried desperately, wanting it to be true, knowing it to be an out-and-out lie. "I love the way you hate me," he whispered in a sexy voice.

It's hard when something you love turns into something you hate.

Pour livrer une guerre contre le Liban, il ne suffit pas de déstabiliser le pays pour le plonger dans la violence, il faut aussi déstabiliser l'opinion publique internationale pour lui faire accepter, voire souhaiter, les bombardements et la mort.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

Unity in the church will not happen if members have unforgiving hearts.

Pastors and other church leaders make mistakes. Church members often exacerbate them.

En una iglesia a la que le falta alineacion, todos compiten por el mismo espacio, los mismos recursos, los mismos voluntarios y el mismo tiempo dentro del calendario.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Write, read, sing, weep, be silent, pray, endure adversities manfully; eternal life is worthy of all these conflicts, yea, and of greater.

Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself . . . one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice.

Three things are required for a war to be just. Indeed, the first requirement is that the ruler at whose command the war is to be waged have the lawful authority to do so. . . . Second, there needs to be a just cause to wage war, namely, that the enemy deserve to have war waged against it because of some wrong it has inflicted. . . . Third, those waging war need to have a right intention, namely, an intention to promote good and avoid evil.

By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.