Quotes About Conflict

Alas, madame! exclaimed Athos, to-day love is like war--the breastplate is becoming useless.

How singular, murmured Maximillian; your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics.

If they do not bring peace, we shall give them death.

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived of sense and perhaps dead, he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist.

Les hommes vraiment généreux sont toujours prêts à devenir compatissants, lorsque le malheur de leur ennemi dépasse les limites de leur haine.

Believe me, to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.

men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.

Nothing attracts a serious duel like an inconclusive one.

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it.

Coconnas : ...et que pour être querellé , j'aime mieux encore l'être par de jolies lèvres comme les vôtres que par une bouche de travers comme la sienne.

Treville understood admirably the war method of that period, in which he who could not live at the expense of the enemy must live at the expense of his compatriots.

War is a distraction: we gain everything by it; we can only lose one thing by it—life—then so much the worse!

Non sapete - disse Porthos - che torcere il collo a quella dannata Milady sarebbe un peccato meno grave che torcerlo a quei poveri diavoli di ugonotti, che non hanno commesso altro delitto che quello di cantare in francese salmi che noi cantiamo in latino?».

D'Artagnan took every smile for an insult, and every look as a provocation

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country

One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic.

The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.

But in the course of thirty years a great change took place, and the North refused to perpetuate what had become the peculiar institution of the South, especially as it gave the South a species of aristocratic preponderance.

When the question is reduced to the simple expression of the struggle between poverty and wealth, the tendency of each side of the dispute becomes perfectly evident without further controversy.

A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.

One of the most familiar weaknesses of the human mind is the wish to reconcile contrary principles and buy peace at the expense of logic.

Parties are a necessary evil in free governments. . . . America has . . . lost the great parties which once divided the nation; and if her happiness is considerably increased, her morality has suffered by their extinction.

A government which should only be able to crush its enemies upon a field of battle would very soon be destroyed.