Quotes About Conflict

one story everyone can safely cover is how much we hate each other. There's no institutional or commercial taboo that story violates.

A Maddow–O'Donnell handoff is always drearily about anti-Republican solidarity, just as a Tucker Carlson–Sean Hannity baton-pass, while less formalized, never leaves the anti-Democrat theme for a second. We are always at war with each other. It never stops, not for one second. This is a profound expression of political instability at the top of our society.

Does anyone seriously believe that powerful people would allow truly dangerous ideas to be broadcast on TV? The news today is a reality show where you're part of the cast: America vs. America, on every channel.

To make money, we've had to train audiences to consume news in a certain way. We need you anxious, pre-pissed, addicted to conflict. Moreover we need you to bring a series of assumptions every time you open a paper or turn on your phone, TV, or car radio.

Steve Durkee had left not on friendly terms, which is not unusual in the Paisley world.

Where there's a will, there's a family fighting over it.

Limited resources. Everything's a zero-sum game." "What

I'm going to talk to them. See if they'll stand aside." "They won't." "Then it will be a short conversation." Jack and Night Comfort left the

I'm going to talk to them. See if they'll stand aside." "They won't." "Then it will be a short conversation." Jack

Limited resources. Everything's a zero-sum game.

But somebody sure as hell's trying to start a war in this country. Liberal against conservative, city against country, pro-gun against gun control, pro-government against pro-freedom, black against white against brown, Christian against Muslim… There's no other explanation that makes sense.

Claire Wolfe: "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

We had to hate the Irish more than any blacks. They were fighting back against our supposed oppression of them. At every opportunity, the Irish were to be attacked,

The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

To fish in troubled waters.

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

Christ, under the law, appeared on a red horse, denoting the terror of that dispensation, and that he had yet his conflict before him, when he was to resist unto blood. But, under the gospel, he appears on a white horse

Though our holy religion teaches us to be for peace, yet it does not forbid us to provide for war.

Those that are enemies to God's church are enemies to themselves, and, sooner or later, they will be made to see it.

None was more quarrelled with by men, than he that came to take up the great quarrel between God and man.

Vilifying opponents "is too much the practice of many of our sects and parties.

Given a few days to contemplate it, the firing on Fort Sumter had cut through what had been a tangle of painful questions and a thicket obscuring who bore responsibility for thrusting them on the country.

All interest in every other topic" seemed to be "eaten up" by the slavery question.