Quotes About Conflict

It is within my mind that this quarrel rages, an untidy battle whose frontiers I cannot measure.

By what right did we lure children to their deaths, caught by a glint of light on metal, a trumpery banner?

I have the greatest respect for General Buonaparte, as every soldier must. But he will make out of Egypt a catastrophe for France. The Revolution has but one enemy, England. And the place to strike England is close to her home.

The man who conquered Ireland could be a match for the man who did not conquer Egypt.

Impoverished inhabitants of the state's most scenic area fight with fanatical determination to prevent a national park from opening up in their neighborhood, while the rails-to-trails program, regarded everywhere else in the union as a harmless scheme for family fun, is reviled in Kansas as an infernal design on the rights of property owners.

In every social issue Republicans perceive the same pattern: a conflict of the authentic and the natural and the democratic with the arrogant and the meddling and the foolish.

Although the Cons vituperate against the high and the mighty, the policies they help enact—deregulating, privatizing—only serve to make the Mods higher and mightier still. And while it may hurt the Mods' feelings to overhear their secretaries referring to them as RINOs, the many rounds of tax cuts the Cons have accomplished have surely made the sting subside. The Mods win even when they lose.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

Nobody heard of Vietnam until there was a war," Ali once proclaimed. "Nobody heard of Korea until there was a war. Nobody heard of Zaire until I fought there, and paying me is a whole lot cheaper than fighting a war."9

Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead,Who living had no roof to shroud his head.

Homo homini lupus

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

One of the differences between assertiveness and aggressiveness is deciding which battles are worth fighting and which are not.