Quotes About Conflict

Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.

And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.

The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Joe Biden has supported sending Americans to die in wars for 50 years, including the never-ending Iraq War.

Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

'Star Wars' is just a special story.

Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of organized police forces, the dawn of forensic science, and the rise and fall of Romanticism?

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

All wars are criminal.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.