Quotes About Conflict

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

War is the normal state of the people.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.