Quotes about Conflict

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.

Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.