Conflict

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Eckhart Tolle

Win through your actions, never through argument.

Robert Greene

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?.

Abraham Lincoln

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

To be between the hammer and the anvil.

French proverbs

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many are brave when the enemy flees.

Italian proverbs

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Seneca

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Desmond Tutu

When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

African proverbs

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Abigail Van Buren

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Napoleon Hill

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

William Shakespeare

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Martin Luther

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Andre Maurois