Quotes About Conflict

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is not won by victory.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.