The repository contains 44 quotes in the category “Conflict.”
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Make friends of your enemies, or kill them.
Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
General William Tecumseh Sherman
1820 — 1891
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
1900 — 1965
You have to just marvel at the stun-gun absurdity of fighting to the death over what happens after you die.
Dennis Miller
1953 —
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
1856 — 1939
Don’t argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
To Kenneth Clarke, who said, "Isn’t it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport?" when England lost to Germany in the 1990 World Cup Semifinal:
I shouldn’t worry too much; we’ve beaten them twice this century at theirs.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
1925 —
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
I’ve always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
Assassination: The extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
There’s a part of the human psyche that’s never satisfied with the chunks of an Archduke at Sarajevo and has to have a World War I.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
The greatest victory is a victory won without fighting.
Big differences that can be worked out are less dangerous than small differences that can’t be.
Thomas Sowell
1930 —
Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
George Carlin
1937 — 2008
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
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