Quotes About Conflict

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both. From Chaucer's The Knight's Tale

Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.

For the Wise Man says, "If you fight with a fool, whether the fool be angry or merry, you will never have rest.

A knowing wife if she is worth her salt Can always prove her husband is at fault, And even though the fellow may have heard Some story told him by a little bird She knows enough to prove the bird is crazy And get her maid to witness she's a daisy

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both.

But Hengist, hearing that Vortimer was dead, raised an army of not less than three hundred thousand men, and fitting out a fleet returned with them to Britain.

Ich hab es satt; wozu sollen wir Menschen miteinander kämpfen? Wir sollten uns nebeneinandersetzen und Ruhe haben. Es wurde ein Fehler gemacht, wie wir geschaffen wurden; es fehlt uns etwas, ich habe keinen Namen dafür - aber wir werden es einander nicht aus den Eingeweiden herauswühlen, was sollen wir uns drum die Leiber aufbrechen?

Ist das Nein am Ja oder das Ja am Nein schuld?

War is progress, peace is stagnation

Each consciousness seeks the death of the other.

Wars are terrible, but necessary, for they save the state from social petrification and stagnation

It is also true that when a people, long kept in a boiling cauldron of oppression, suddenly find the lid removed, they spend their remaining energy battling chimerical enemies.

Furthermore, one does not fight an enemy on the turf on which he is strongest, but where he is weakest.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done

Making Life means making trouble

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion