Quotes About Conflict

You don't need an iron fist if you aren't a pacifist.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

The drive to convert people's minds and hearts has caused more grief, more suffering, more loss of life than any desire for property, riches, or even the necessities of survival.

All is changed, changed utterly A terrible beauty is born

I was the first comic in world history, so they told me, to pick fights with children.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion

Se necesita más coraje para escudriñar los rincones oscuros de tu propia alma que para luchar en un campo de batalla.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

I've got a voice of a dead man in my head who is trying to take over my body!

I'd had two fights in the past couple of hours; won one, lost one (to a bird)

Kermit, the voice in my head wants me to take you out in the woods and eat your liver,

Sometimes we have undesirable habits and we want to correct them. And there are times when we are strongly tempted to do wrong. Then, like an insect caught in a spider's web, we struggle to get free. Our conscious will is in conflict with our imagination and the will of our subconscious mind. The more we struggle, the more we become entrapped.

discerning men have described Communism as reversing and negating history. It has turned man against himself. Instead of solving the many complex problems of modern life, Marxism's negative approach has simply resurrected primitive problems which past generations of struggling humanity had already succeeding in solving.

Marx and Engels accepted the fact that the remaking of the world will have to be a cruel and ruthless task and that it will involve the destruction of all who stand in the way.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others…. One feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two Souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

I have been played at being a HERO. But I could not bear how FOOLISH I felt every time I spared someone who was determined to kill me." -Elektra (Elektra #1, page 4)

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

The solution of the Punjab problem may lie in a radical redrafting of the Indian Constitution to produce a federation that gives more regional autonomy. Punjab is not the only region to have been in conflict with the centre, but it is the only one in which religion and politics have united to create a powerful opposition.