Quotes About Conflict

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age.

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn't focus too much on the bad.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong. It's the other way around; it will lead to more wars.

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

Wars have always started over religion.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.