Quotes about Conflict
Old men make war, young men fight and die
— Winston Churchill
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
— Alexander Hamilton
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.
— Ayn Rand
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
— Mahatma Gandhi
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
— Malcolm X
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
— Cicero
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
— Henry David Thoreau
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
— Herman Melville
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
— Dorothy Sayers