Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Conflict.

The repository contains 44 quotes in the category “Conflict.”
Showing quotes 21 through 40 in the category “Conflict.” Page 1 2 3.

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Robert Frost
1874 — 1963

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828 — 1910

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

President George Washington
1732 — 1799

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

Duke François de La Rochefoucauld
1613 — 1680

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus
1469 — 1536

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov
1920 — 1992

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings
1818 — 1885

Pick battles big enough to matter and small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol
1936 —     

Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even.

Franklin P. Jones
1853 — 1935

Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert
1754 — 1824

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

General George S. Patton
1885 — 1945

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer
1902 — 1983

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man, but it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

King Baudouin I
1930 — 1993

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

Nelson Mandela
1918 —     

In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.

Penn Jillette
1955 —     

An argument is two people trying to get in the last word first.

MAD Magazine

Starting a war in the name of peace is like poking a hole in a balloon to get more air into it.

MAD Magazine

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 — 1900

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

President George Washington
1732 — 1799

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