Quotes About Conflict

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

If there was a regret, the one thing I didn't get to do before he died, was bury the hatchet with Ultimate Warrior.

Since the first archer fired the first arrow, warriors have been inventing ways to strike their enemies while removing themselves from harm's way.

Social justice warriors want to return to the Dark Ages when you communicated with a club instead of joining one.

Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.

Everybody wants to see two warriors have a good fight.

The purpose of all wars is peace.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars... It's the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

I had to fight with myself not to hurt people, some serious mental wars.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.