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Quotes About Conflict

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
~ Samuel Johnson
It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
~ Mehmet Oz
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.
~ Wil Wheaton
Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?
~ Roger Ebert
I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.
~ Paul Kearney
Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.
~ Neal Shusterman, UnWholly
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Sometimes I don't like people. And, you know, it doesn't bother me. The hard ones are when you really like somebody, really respect somebody and they make a mistake.
~ Donald Trump
If you don't respect each other and let it lie, it can be embarrassing or really frustrating.
~ Jenny Slate
A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.
~ Nizar Qabbani
I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.
~ Henri
I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.
~ Tayeb Salih
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
~ Marquis de Sade
You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.
~ Georgette Heyer, Devil's Cub
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
~ Jon Krakauer
Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.
~ Nicholas Stoller
choose now," he spat, his eyes practically shooing sparks. "me or him." gosh,Fang, you romantic fool," i said sarcastically."howw incredibly sexist pig of you.
~ James Patterson
If Gage finds out, he's going to have a cow-horns, balls, and all.
~ Paige Tyler, Wolf Trouble
You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene" - Levi
~ Katie Reus, Shattered Duty
To get what I wanted I became the monster I've always hated...
~ Megan Mitcham, Enemy Mine
You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.
~ Dawn M. Turner, Promises
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
~ Che Guevara
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
~ David C. Coates