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Quotes About Tension

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
~ Michael Morpurgo
I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.
~ Stephen Lang
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
No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
One insult pocketed soon produces another.
~ Thomas Jefferson
This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
~ Tony Blair
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
~ Washington Irving
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
I am always at peace even when I am in the midst of war.
~ Debasish Mridha
The war for peace can destroy the whole world.
~ Debasish Mridha
We always desire peace yet we prepare to go to war.
~ Debasish Mridha
Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.
~ Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.
~ Paul Bamikole
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
Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
A bad peace is worse than war.
~ Tacitus
for years now there had been no country here but the war.
~ Michael Herr, Dispatches
You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.
~ Ben Galley, The Written
Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.
~ Eugene V. Debs
The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich