Quotes About Conflict

There is no idea bigger, more critical or more urgent than ending our endless wars.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to death. one or the other has to go.

O'Connell lo miraba, decepcionado, pensando que los soviéticos empezaban con las purgas aun antes de la victoria.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34)

Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

The conflict is along the line of turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral choices.

The things that are right, noble, and good from the natural standpoint are the very things that keep us from being God's best. Once we come to understand that natural moral excellence opposes or counteracts surrender to God, we bring our soul into the center of its greatest battle.

A]n der Wirklichkeit der Geschichte, scheitert jede Ideologie.

Man is an element of all-living nature that rises in rebellion against nature. He will pay for this defiance with his life. Through this act of defiance, man distinguishes himself from all other living things, which as pure nature are blended into the tapestry of the natural universe. Mankind is the hero of this tragedy, world history the final act of the tragedy itself.

War is the creator, hunger the destroyer, of all great things.

There is but one end to all the conflict, and that is death—the death of individuals, of peoples, of cultures. Our own death still lies far ahead of us in the murky darkness of the next thousand years.

World history is [the] conflict of nature in man and apart from man, akin to the other great spectacles of nature... the earthquake, the thunderstorm, the storm. The beauty of destruction, the greatness of the will to win.

Der Farbige durchschaut den Weißen, wenn er von "Menschheit" und ewigem Frieden redet. Er wittert die Unfähigkeit und den fehlenden Willen, sich zu verteidigen.

The fight against Nature is hopeless and yet — it will be fought out to the bitter end.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Woe to the statesman who does not seek in these times a case for war that still holds up after the war is over.