Quotes About Conflict

Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory.

But when the face of Sextus Was seen among the foes, A yell that rent the firmament From all the town arose. On the house-tops was no woman But spat towards him and hissed, No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist.

Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.

During the course of his reign, the amir experienced over forty uprisings against his government. Had these been better coordinated or come all at once, Abdur Rahman would have undoubtedly been toppled. One of the amir's political strengths was that he aimed his attacks at specific targets and thereby kept conflict from spreading too widely against him at any one time.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Passion against Reason, Reason against Faith, Faith against the Devil, and my Conscience against all.

The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe

By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

There reigns in the broken human heart a feeling of discord, a lack of congruence between what is and what ought to be (Augustine, Conf. 5).

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

A whiff of grapeshot.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.