Quotes About Conflict

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Every war is a war against children.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

The true objective of war is peace.

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.