Quotes about Conflict
What terrible things we do to those we love!
— Frank Herbert
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.
— Frank Herbert
I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.
— Frank Herbert
If there is no enemy, one must be invented.
— Frank Herbert
The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do. -Teachings of the Golden Path, Bene Gesserit Archives
— Frank Herbert
It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.
— Frank Herbert
A certain amount of killing has always been an arm of business
— Frank Herbert
America is infatuated with this false understanding of tolerance. To be truly tolerant is not to give every idea equal standing or to compromise the truth in the interest of keeping the peace and making everyone happy.
— Franklin Graham
Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
— Julian Casablancas
One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.
— Donald Miller
People don't start wars, governments do.
— Ronald Reagan
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.
— Ronald Reagan