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Quotes About Conflict

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.
~ Lara Logan
There's no war that will end all wars.
~ Haruki Murakami
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
~ Edward Dahlberg
All war is deception.
~ Sun Tzu
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
~ Paul Fussell
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
~ Henrik Ibsen
The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.
~ Widad Akreyi
War is the science of destruction.
~ John S. C. Abbott
The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
~ Sebastian Junger, War
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.
~ Cynthia McKinney
Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.
~ Helen Thomas
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
~ Livy
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
~ Norman Thomas
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
~ Curt Schilling
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
~ Pope John Paul II
Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.
~ Tom DeLonge
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
~ Sallust
The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko