Quotes about Conflict
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
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
— George Washington
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
— Martin Luther
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
— William McKinley
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
— Alfred Nobel
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
— Abbie Hoffman
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
— Thomas Merton