Quotes About Conflict

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.