Quotes about Conflict

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.

Strife is food that feeds evil spirits.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

war between paralyzed telepaths.

Violence has followed our species every step of the way in its long journey through time.