Quotes about Conflict

A few of the villagers began to stone us and our children.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.

Lord, have pity on me. My evil sorrows strive with my good joys; and on which side is the victory, I know not.

There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.

For not even lions or dragons have ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged with one another.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.