Quotes About Tension

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

If you want peace, understand war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.