Quotations about Conflict
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
~Alfred Adler
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.
~John Fellows Akers
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
~A. Alvarez
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
~Isaac Asimov
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
~John M Barrie
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
~Paxton Blair
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
~Dale Carnegie
Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few.
~Winston Churchill
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
~Winston Churchill
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
~Frank Moore Colby
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it.
~Charles Caleb Colton
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
~James Corbett
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
~Clarence Darrow
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog.
~Dwight David Eisenhower
Use soft words and hard arguments.
~English Proverb
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
~Euripides
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
~Sam Ewig
Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.
~George Foreman
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
~William Lloyd Garrison
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
~Edward Gibbon
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
~Edgar Watson Howe
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~David Hume
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.
~Thomas Jefferson
I have not yet begun to fight!
~John Paul Jones
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
~Joseph Joubert
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
~Jonathan Kozol
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
~Irving Layton
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
~James Russell Lowell
I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.
~Dolly Payne and Todd Madison
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
~Andre Maurois
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
~Joe Moore
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
~Kathleen Norris
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
~Blaise Pascal
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opponents."
~Sir William Penn
It is all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself. But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
~R. E. Phillips
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
~William Pitt
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Plato
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
~Saville
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
~Robert Louis Stevenson
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
~Oscar Wilde