Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

I can't totally talk about why we divide, but... it's interesting because we're doing this scene today that's sort of the pinnacle of that. Two gangs fighting against each other, ultimately knowing that... ya know, it's like friends fighting friends. To me it's fun, personally.

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Let them fight it out, friend! Things have gone too far.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

Why should fortune have made the Huns victorious over so many nations unless it where to prepare them for the joy of this conflict?

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts.