Quotes About Conflict

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

It's east to start a war in any country

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!