Quotes About Conflict

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

War is the business of barbarians.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.