Quotes About Conflict

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords.

He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.

The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.

@joey fight me IRL

Far away from non-existent landmarks; there are no more wars.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made, not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Every man is his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

The Russians dashed on towards that thin redline streak tipped with a line of steel.

When the foeman bares his steel,Tarantara, tarantara!We uncomfortable feel,Tarantara.

I seized him by his little pig-tail,And on his knees fell he,As he squirmed and struggled,And gurgled and guggled,I drew my snickersnee!

His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.

I probably can't stand you, but that doesn't mean I don't love you.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

I love to hit people. I love to.

You can't love your team without hating another team.

Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it