Quotes about Conflict

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

Wherever men are weak, there is no love - and destruction reigns.

What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.

remember that God uses conflict to stretch and mold us, and oftentimes he won't deliver us out of the fire. Instead, he wants us to walk through it. You can pray all you want, but sometimes, conflict is just going to happen.