Quotes About Conflict

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, "Hey Tris!" and Uriah cries, "Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?" "My exceptional strength," she says.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.