Quotes About Conflict

Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

God is always at war with sin

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

War justifies everything.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

War is life war is the origin of all things.