Quotes About Conflict

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

'The Clone Wars' is certainly set in the darkest possible time throughout the whole 'Star Wars' story.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars and electing our politicians based on their religious statements.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

'The Clone Wars' got very dark as we headed towards the end of the war and the downfall of the Jedi.

No one has hit the FARC harder than I. But all wars have to end at some point, and that requires a negotiated solution.

We need to restart political processes to end wars.

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

The only reason an empire ever fights wars is to maintain empire.

Children aren't responsible for wars.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.

All government wars are unjust.