Quotes About Conflict

Lovely morning, World War Two.

And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.

To rule forever, continues the Chinaman, later, it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People,-- to create thus a Distinction betwixt 'em,-- 'tis the first stroke.-- All else will follow as if predestin'd, unto War and Devastation.

DON'T EVER ANTAGONIZE THE HORN.

How, Yusef wondered, can two men joke like that and tomorrow be enemies. Perhaps they'd been enemies yesterday. He decided public servants weren't human.

But then last September the rockets came. Them fucking rockets. You couldn't adjust to the bastards.

Explosion without an objective," declared Miles Blundell, "is politics in its purest form.

But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty.

The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.

It's wrong because if you pick up a rifle, the Man picks up a machine gun, by the time you find some machine gun he's all set up to shoot rockets, begin to see a pattern?

His workplace has become a rat's nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft.

Suppose we considered the war itself as a laboratory ?

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre

Nothing like perpetual litigation to age a man before his time.

Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.

Fuck the war. They were in love.

Onto Chastity Bjornsen's car radio came the drawling irreverent brass and subhip syncopation of a Herb Alpert arrangement, which Doc realized with growing horror was a cover of Ohio Express's "Yummy Yummy Yummy." He

Got a hardon in my fist, Don't be pissed, Re-enlist-- Snap--to, Slothrop! Jackson, I don't give a fuck, Just give me my ruptured duck! Snap--to, Slothrop! No one here can love or comprehend me, They just look for someplace else to send...me... Tap my head and mike my brain, Stick that needle in my vein, Slothrop, snap to!

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre (attributed to a French observer during the Charge of the Light

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.