Quotes About Conflict

My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

Cats know not how to pardon.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.