Quotes About Conflict

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

War is the health of the state.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.