Conflict Quotes

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Charles Caleb Colton

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

Henry David Thoreau

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Lord Kames

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Christopher Hitchens

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

Robert E. Ornstein

The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

William T. Walsh

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, ... a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world.

Frederick Salomon Perls

We cannot really think in one way and act in another...

Thomas Troward

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

Charles de Gaulle

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (Romans 7:19

Bible

I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7

Bible

Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom. Proverbs 13:10

Bible

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. Matthew 26:41

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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Finley Peter Dunne

The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

Sir Francis Drake

More will mean worse.

Martin Amis

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau