Quotes about Conflict
Truth is eternal, and conflict with error will only make manifest its strength....
— Ellen White
It's worth pointing out that Renate didn't just marry a gay drug addict. That would have been bad enough. But she married a gay drug addict whose life was about to go haywire in ways he hadn't previously thought possible.
— Elton John
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.
— Barack Obama
We have just enough religion to make us hate one another," Jonathan Swift once observed, "but not enough to make us love one another.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millennia.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.
— Mike Pence
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
— Paul Johnson
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
— Zinedine Zidane
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.
— George W. Bush
Americans do not yet have the distance of history," I said. "But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil. War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.
— George W. Bush
A bad war is fought with a good mind.
— George Washington