Quotes About Conflict

Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.

One does not attack a person merely to hurt and conquer him, but perhaps merely to become conscious of one's own strength.

Even the wisest among you is only a conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost.

In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you.

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

To fight upward out of that chaos to this form requires a compulsion: one must be faced with the choice of perishing or prevailing. A dominating race can grow up only out of terrible and violent beginnings.

The Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.

In warring against stupidity, the most just and gentle of men at last become brutal.

It is the belief in the moral opposition between Good and Evil that makes the world tremendously hateful and eternally conflict ridden.

The commencement of all great things in the world is thoroughly and continuously saturated with blood.

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge!…(283).

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Attacking is with me a proof of good will, and, on occasion, of gratitude.

There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!...

Nevertheless, I am versed in the use of two weapons: saber and cannon — and, perhaps, one other . . .

The biggest wars are the wars of thought. The Oldest Soldier

when Big Science and politics tangle, science always loses

At Cold Corner in midwinter, the women of the Snow Clan were waging a cold war against the men. They trudged about like ghosts in their whitest furs, almost invisible against the new-fallen snow, always together in female groups, silent or at most hissing like angry shades. They avoided Godshall with its trees for pillars and walls of laced leather and towering pine-needle roof.

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

It is a curious psychological fact that those who make their personal love public, and "dear" one another with saccharine epithets, are very often those who when alone quarrel and fight.

two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II

a friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure. In this kind of love, the lover loves himself more than his friend. That is why, if the friend ever prevents him from realizing what he wants, his love turns to hate.

People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was a fight to the death with the forces of evil, and the stakes were survival and civilization itself. It is no simple thing to make people believe such things and later persuade them to accept a settlement based on compromise.