Quotes About Conflict

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.