Quotes About Conflict

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?