Quotes about Conflict

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. Sometimes in the private interest of royal families, Satan said, sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose--there is no such war in the history of the race.

Two or three centuries from now it will be recognized that all the competent killers are Christians; then the pagan world will go to school to the Christian—not to acquire his religion, but his guns. The Turk and the Chinaman will buy those to kill missionaries and converts with.

All men will confess that without Christian civilization war must have remained a poor and trifling thing to the end of time.

The only way to win a toxic person, is not to play.

Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that. So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.