Quotes About Conflict

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I'm asking, is there any place you don't want to intervene in?

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.