Quotes about Conflict
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
- Mahatma Gandhi
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
- Malcolm X
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
- Cicero
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
- Henry David Thoreau
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
- Herman Melville
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
- Dorothy Sayers
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
- JC Ryle
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
- Bo Jackson
An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.
- Matt Redman
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi