Quotes About Conflict

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

When you're arguing with a fool, you're the fool for even going back and forth.

Don't argue. We ain't doing that. What you going back and forth with somebody over anything for?

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.

Skynyrd is a big family. We have argued, fussed, and fought.

I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the wars that have been fought around the world, and it's pretty ridiculous when you think about what they're actually arguing over.

When we were younger, we fought, but that's what kids do, right?

I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.

Being in a boy band, everyone has an opinion of all of us and what we do. There was a time I fought with that.

Politics is no longer being fought on traditional political lines.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

I can sit across the table from somebody that worked with me and my company that I founded and say, 'Here are five things I don't like about what you're doing, and we have to fix it.'

I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.

I think I'm far too much of a wallflower or maybe a fragile flower to be in the military.