Quotes about Conflict

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

Casualties of war keep alive post war hate.

Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts

Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction.