Quotes about Conflict
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
— Alice Walker
Science leads you to killing people.
— Ben Stein
Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.
— Stephen Hawking
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war.
— Francis Collins
A house divided cannot stand.
— Abraham Lincoln
Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.
— Abraham Lincoln
I will not say that we may not sooner or later be compelled to meet force by force; but the time has not yet come, and if we are true to ourselves, may never come. Do not mistake that the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Therefore let the legions of slavery use bullets; but let us wait patiently till November, and fire ballots at them in return; and by that peaceful policy, I believe we shall ultimately win.
— Abraham Lincoln
Both [North and South] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.
— Abraham Lincoln
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.
— Abraham Lincoln
No arguments will give courage to the coward.
— Aesop
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
— Desmond Tutu