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Quotes About Confrontation

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
~ John Grisham
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
~ William Shakespeare
We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
~ Andy Rooney
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
~ Aaron Huey
Defense is the first act of war.
~ Byron Katie
We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.
~ Mohammad Javad Zarif
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
In a war the aggressor sets the rules.
~ Rush Limbaugh
No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.
~ George Friedman
The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.
~ Marianne Williamson
When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.
~ Sylvester Stallone
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
~ Lewis Carroll
So really…what is war? A senseless battle between men's inflated ego.
~ Kathy McClary
The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.
~ DaShanne Stokes
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
~ Leon Trotsky
The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.
~ David Drake, The Voyage
Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them."Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?
~ Erin Hunter, Night Whispers
Engage the enemy more closely.
~ Charles Faddis
What are we doing, burying bodies?" Admittedly, this would be a lace to do it. Isolated, off any main roads."Nope. We're going to war.
~ Kelley York, Made of Stars
I'd prefer 'Bonnie Blue Flag', if you take requests…" Tom had turned and rested his elbows on the bar. His hand was inches from the Colt. These were the men he was looking for.
~ C.G. Faulkner, Unreconstructed