Quotes About Tension

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Peace is produced by war.

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.