Social Conflict Quotes

All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend, to the neglect, or perhaps, against the interest of others; so that an old Greek said, "He that has friends has no friend.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

An issue between a people and a class

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

A large percentage of Moslems living in Europe believe that Europe is decadent and that they should work to destroy it.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

We can solve a housing problem or we can try to solve a racial problem. But we cannot combine the two.

The parties in this conflict are not merely abolitionists and slaveholders—they are atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans, Jacobins, on one side, and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battleground—Christianity and Atheism the combatants; and the progress of humanity is at stake.

On the one side stand the corporate interests of the United States, the moneyed interests, aggregated wealth and capital, imperious, arrogant, compassionless.... On the other side an unnumbered throng, those who gave the Democratic party a name and for whom it has assumed to speak.

The presence in society of different, sometimes opposing political convictions and discordant interests generates political struggle which is waged by both legitimate and morally justified methods and methods sometimes contradicting the norms of public law and Christian and natural morality

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

If you're different in any way at school, then you're going to get a bit of abuse. You learn to deal with it in a way where people don't come back at you again.

The disagreement among American political parties, with only a few exceptions, has been over the practical question of how to secure the agreed objective, while conciliating different interests, rather than over ultimate values or over what interest is paramount.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

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

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

Pluralism, democracy, unity, respect all mean nothing because on the ground, we hate each other

Fight labor's demands to the last ditch and there will come a time when it seizes the whole of power, makes itself sovereign and takes what it used to ask.

Ever greater grows the mass of the proletariat, ever vaster the army of the unemployed, ever sharper the contrast between oppressors and oppressed, ever fiercer that war of classes between bourgeoisie and proletariat which divides modern society into two hostile camps and is the common characteristic of ever industrial country.

The state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies.

Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.