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Quotes About Conflict

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
~ John Brown
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?
~ Hirohito
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
~ Marshall McLuhan
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
~ Jimmy Carter
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
~ Plato
Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.
~ Jill Stein
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.
~ Rose O'Neal Greenhow
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
~ Pema Chodron
I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.
~ Adolf Hitler
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...
~ Yasser Arafat
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
~ Howard Thurman
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
~ Hermann Goring
In war, truth is the first casualty.
~ Aeschylus
America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
~ William Halsey
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.
~ Jill Stein
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling
~ Rudyard Kipling
We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
~ Henry Kissinger