Conflict Quotes And Sayings

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“Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”
– William Shakespeare

“One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.”
– Diogenes

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
– Erich Fromm

“The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”
– Publius Cornelius

“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
– Martin Luther King Jr

“Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear”
– William Cullen Bryant

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.”
– George Burton Adams

“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler

“After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.”
– John Fellows Akers

“When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.”
– A. Alvarez

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
– Issac Asimov

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men…the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.”
– Sir Francis Bacon

“So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.”
– Roger Nash Baldwin

“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.”
– Dave Barry

“If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.”
– Hans Alberecht Bethe

“Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.”
– Paxton Blair

“There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.”
– Angel Blessing

“We’ve got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don’t know how it was before, so they think, this isn’t too bad. We’re working. We have our attache’ cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don’t realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.”
– Emma Bombeck

“… it’s simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.”
– Emma Bombeck

“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.”
– Louis Dembitz Brandeis

“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”
– Rita Marie Brown

“The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.”
– George Herbert Walker Bush

“Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.”
– Samuel Butler

“But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness — each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked — each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.”
– Herbert Butterfield

“You can’t divorce religious belief and public service … I’ve never detected any conflict between God‘s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.”
– Jimmy Carter

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
– Tao Le Ching

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
– Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

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