#warring

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#breasts #doth #elements #four #framed

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beg #could #enough #him #i

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#between #civilization #empires #new #new age

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#cannot #common #factions #into #long

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Albert Camus

#barbarous #because #been #centuries #check

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it. ↗

— John Keegan

#africa #anything #become #black #extremely

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop. ↗

— Mos Def

#because #been #black #black music #bob

There are always two forces warring against each other within us. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#always #each #forces #other #two