Quotes About Conflict

but trial by combat was unknown.

Then democracy comes: the poor overcome their opponents, slaughtering some and banishing the rest; and give to the people an equal share of freedom and power" (557).

Victory breeds hatred

As submissive natures unite with masterful individuals to make the order and operation of a society, so the imitative majority follows the innovating minority, and this follows the originative individual, in adapting new responses to the demands of environment or survival. History in the large is the conflict of minorities; the majority applauds the victor and supplies the human material of social experiment.

Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up against it, and waits there always to reclaim that to which civilization has temporarily laid claim.

War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

War is a nation's way of eating.

In the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no war

I know that I am not right about everything, and yet I am simultaneously convinced that I am. I believe these two things completely, and yet they are in catastrophic logical opposition to each other.

Suddenly it didn't look like the home I loved. It looked like an enemy.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

Opposition is true Friendship.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

They accumulate A world in which Man is by his nature the enemy of Man

And mutual fear brings peace; Till the selfish loves increase.

The Classics, it is the Classics! & not Goths nor Monks, that Desolate Europe with Wars.

AÅŸk s?rf Kendini memnun etmeye uÄŸra??r, BaÅŸkas?n? Kendi keyfine kurban eder: BaÅŸkas?n?n rahat?n?n kaçmas?ndan zevk al?r, Ve Cennete raÄŸmen bir Cehennem kurar.

WAR IS GOOD BUSINESS INVEST YOUR SON';

Dissonance (if you are interested) leads to discovery

What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it.

Nobody wants to read about happy people.

The final word belongs to one of Truman's aides, George Elsey. "It's all well and good to come along later and say the bomb was a horrible thing," he commented subsequently. "The whole goddamn war was a horrible thing.