Famous quotes containing the words violence and/or conflict:
“The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Two principles, according to the Settembrinian cosmogony, were in perpetual conflict for possession of the world: force and justice, tyranny and freedom, superstition and knowledge; the law of permanence and the law of change, of ceaseless fermentation issuing in progress. One might call the first the Asiatic, the second the European principle.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)