Quotes About Conflict

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

A gun is not an argument.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.