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Quotes About Conflict

inequality is generally a better predictor of violence than unemployment.
~ Steven Pinker
I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.
~ Ann Brashares
Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
~ Catullus
Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.
~ Lea Salonga
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
~ Moliere
A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.
~ Rudolf Dreikurs
where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
~ William Shakespeare
If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.
~ Arundhati Roy
Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
~ David Niven
Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.
~ Desmond Tutu
If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
~ Richard Gere
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
~ Catullus
What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
~ Bruce Springsteen
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.
~ Mao Zedong
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate.
~ Wayne Dyer
Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.
~ Knut Hamsun
Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.
~ Mark Twain
By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.
~ Sigmund Freud
When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.
~ Meher Baba