Quotes about Conflict
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
— John Donne
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.
— Thomas Jefferson
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
— Albert Camus
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
— Tertullian
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
— Tertullian
Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.
— Tertullian
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft
— Theodore Roosevelt
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.
— Theodore Roosevelt