Quotes About Conflict

Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, praying on your behalf.

At some point they show their true colors After the break up After the trial After the contract is signed and broken Their true colors stink These days I find it hard to get along with them I want to push them until the colors come out And sometimes I hate them so much, I push and see I do the same to the ones I like The ones I don't care about I smile at real nice

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men: your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

Without a defined enemy, some people wouldn't know how to get through the day. When there's no enemy, they make one. An enemy does not occur naturally. Animals may have conflict but it is survival motivated. It is Homo sapiens who seek out others and hit them until they hit back. It is as old as the first line drawn in the sand. Isn't it easier to fight than think?

America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.

At one point two guys looked to start fighting and I yelled for them to kill each other and then they made up and I told them to fuck each other.

I didn't know I had a quarrel with him.

Grummoch said, 'There is little profit in talking to him yet. These berserks live in a closed world of conflict and brotherhood. It will be long before Knud Ulfson's ears will be open to the voices of men, for he is in the battle-trance yet, and I doubt whether he could see his hand before his face. That is the way of berserks.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

Their is one advantage in a plurality of wifes; tha fite each other, insted ov their husbands.

I don't rekoleckt now ov ever hearing ov two dogs fiteing unless thare waz a man or two around.

For within himself, be he clairvoyant and articulate, he will find latent the divisions of the mind of European man, and their opposing impulses.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows.