Quotes About Conflict

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Happiness is a warm gun.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.

Before reacting to any conflicting situation in life. Ask yourself a simple question: "You want to be happy or you want to be right?

Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.

To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.