conflict Quotes

Evils draw men together.

Evil draws men together.

Peace is more difficult than war.

Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together... ...

We fight wars so that we can live in peace.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from... ...

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.