Quotes About Understanding

I have seen their backs before.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

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.

In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.

When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war?

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

This world needs much more kissing and far less fighting.

Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.

From defilement can come much wisdom

There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

You can't demand peace, but you can reduce the reasons for war.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.