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Quotes About Conflict

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
~ Alexander Berkman
Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.
~ Walter Martin
The truth is never the problem; The problem is always the problem.
~ Jeff VanVonderen
Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
~ Francis Schaeffer
I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.
~ Ogden Nash
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
~ John Shelby Spong
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
~ Daniel Webster
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
~ Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
~ Alain Badiou
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
~ Edward Abbey
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
~ Lauryn Hill
The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.
~ David Mamet
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence
~ Michael Medved
Are you really coming at me?" "Lady, I'm trying to be nice to you. But I wouldn't push your luck with me." "You? Tiny little hybrid freak? What are you going to do?" "Morally reprehensible things that most good people would be appalled by.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Ric placed his elbows on his desk and rested his chin in the palms of his hand. "So, let me sum up - we've got one vote for total annihilation and one vote for forcing them to join the hockey team. Am I correct?" "Yes," both females replied.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Trust me, pups, one day you'll find that male who makes you love him, care for him, and want to stab him in the face all at the same time. And your lives will never be the same.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.
~ Sherman Edwards
People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dev-"Come in peace or leave in pieces
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know when people say fine, it generally means 'leave me the hell alone because I don't want to talk about what's really bothering me.' (Susan)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
~ Sherrod Brown
I learned that, to a trade unionist, strikebreakers—scabs—are the lowest form of human life.
~ Sherrod Brown