conflict Quotes

"Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war."

"What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning."

"Truths may clash without contradicting each other."

"What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things."

"Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death.... ...

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"So long as there are men, there will be wars."

"You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time."

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.