Quotes About Conflict

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

There's a war going on outside no man is safe from. You can run but you can't hide forever.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

All war is based on deception.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.