Quotes About Conflict

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

In violence, we forget who we are

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.