Quotes About Conflict

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?