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Quotes About Conflict

By the time the Milky Way collided with Andromeda, the war between them, for all practical purposes, was over.
~ John C. Wright
there shall never be quietness for the Kingdom of Christ in this world, because it will always be infested and troubled by its enemies. Secondly
~ John Calvin
It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.
~ John Cassian
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle.
~ John Cheever
This thought of yours is wicked; for it wants to prevent you from correcting your brother. Therefore, do not prevent yourself from speaking; but rather, speak according to God. For, indeed, even sick people that are being healed will speak against their doctors; yet, the latter do not care, knowing that the same people will thank them afterward.
~ John Chryssavgis
I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.
~ John Ciardi
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
~ John Clayton
debate in his troubled thoughts, however. Despite this, they
~ John Clellon Holmes
to understand and explore interpersonal relationships, we must do so in the context of our relationship with God. We were made by Him and for Him. The root of all conflict is our departure from God, and the resolution of all conflict must build from peace with God.
~ John Coblentz
Why did you shoot him?" "You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.
~ John Connolly
War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity.
~ John Connolly
Families," said Angel, with some feeling. "Can't live with them, can't have them killed without complications.
~ John Connolly
Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
~ John Connolly
War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity. There were wars before it, and there will be wars after it, and in between people will still fight one another and hurt one another and maim one another and betray one another, because that is what they have always done.
~ John Connolly
No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself. That's just the way Evil is. All things considered, it's better to be on the side of Good, even if Evil occasionally has nicer uniforms.
~ John Connolly
Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one's view of them.
~ John Connolly
God, they were only children when they went off to fight, virgins, and virgin children had no call to be holding guns and firing them at other children. When he looked at his grandchildren, and saw how cosseted and naïve they were despite the air of knowingness that they maintained, he found it impossible to visualize them as he had once been.
~ John Connolly
He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.
~ John Connolly
The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.
~ John Connolly
She might suspect it, but I haven't met a mother yet who'd admit her child was out where the buses don't run, not without a fight." "But Mother must have signed off on Vincent Garronne
~ John Connolly
I've started to believe that most people do what they think is right. The problems arise when what they do is right for themselves, but not what's right for others.
~ John Connolly
Yet it is the dissenters seeking a peaceful settlement
~ John Corvino
War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
~ John Cory
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
~ John Cory