Quotes about Strife
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Jewish nation, immediately on the death of Solomon, split into two parties, who chose separate kings, and who carried on most rancorous wars against each other.
- Thomas Paine
Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.
- Thomas Watson
for all those people who wanted to go on believing, but whose anger at God made it hard for them to hold on to their faith and be comforted by religion.
- Harold S. Kushner
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.
- Heinrich Heine
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
- Heinrich Heine
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
- Henry Ford
If it weren't for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be a distant memory.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
To church congregations and denominations that are weary of strife, of continually arguing things out in a tense, judgmental atmosphere, it may come as welcome news to learn that they, too, are allowed to say 'I know not' with regard to the Bible, free to not use it to justify taking sides in every issue that comes along.
- Kathleen Norris
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
- Victor Hugo
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
- Alfred Nobel
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
- Joseph Addison