Quotes About Conflict

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

More die in flight than in battle.

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.