Quotes About Conflict

If you want peace, understand war.

Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

The shot heard round the world.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on