Quotes about Conflict

More Christian blood has been shed by Christians than by heathens and Mohammedans.

We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward. For example, the ten commandments say, "Thou shalt not kill." Then the next chapter says, "Go into Canaan and kill everybody in it." That is a bounded field. The myths of participation and love pertain only to the in-group, and the out-group is totally other.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.