Quotes about Conflict

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.

my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

And to contend with the whole world is a comfort, but to contend with oneself dreadful.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

There are none who can fight as fiercely as a mother and a daughter, and none who can forgive more completely.

There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The news always sound crazy. People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

Let God fight your battles. Let God be your vindicator. You're not supposed to engage in every conflict. Don't fight battles that are not between you and your destiny.

Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.