Quotes About Conflict

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

War is nothing but organized murder.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.