#strife

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#any #before #cigar #easy #empty

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead. ↗

— Virgil

#should #strife #vanquished

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ↗

— Virgil

#stratagem #strife #used #whether #who

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#bad #civil #conflict #easier #find

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#am #because #care #hold #i

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#co-operation #company #employees #even #industrial

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #between #conflicts #consequence #creation

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#constantly #i #strife #terrorism #want

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#any #command #discord #divisions #heart

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. ↗

— Herodotus

#concerted #effort #evil #greater #greater evil