Quotes About Conflict

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

It is with artillery that war is made.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.