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Quotes About Conflict

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
~ Aristotle
I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.
~ Curtis LeMay
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.
~ Tatjana Soli
Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.
~ Luisa Morgantini
Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.
~ Saddam Hussein
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
~ Robert Capa
War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
~ Stephen A. Douglas
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
~ Peter Ustinov
War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left
~ Bertrand Russell
The most important thing today is to stop US wars.
~ Yuri Kochiyama
The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.
~ Roger Sherman
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
~ Benito Mussolini
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
~ Sebastian Junger, War
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
~ Georges Clemenceau
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
~ Brendan Behan
In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
~ Sam Houston
I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
~ Bum Phillips
It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.
~ Yagyu Munenori
The cause of war is preparation for war.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?
~ Adrian Carton de Wiart
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
~ Alexander Sutherland Neill
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.
~ I. F. Stone