Strife Quotes

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war. Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

Competition is a sin.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

Should the idea get abroad that there is likely to be no union among us, it will damp the minds of the people, diminish the glory of our struggle, and lessen its importance; because it will open to our view future prospects of war and dissension among ourselves

We may define "faith" as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith". We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups substitute different emotions.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Upon the fields of friendly strife Are sown the seeds, That, upon other fields, on other days, Will bear the fruits of victory.

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

I've just had this fight since I can't even remember.

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

I've been fighting my whole life.

We don't always win when we are united, but we always lose when we are divided.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

War is the father and king of all.