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Quotes About Conflict

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
~ Charles Sumner
We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.
~ Sheikh Abdullah
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
~ W. Eugene Smith
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
~ Mort Walker
The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'
~ Robin Williams
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
~ Steven Spielberg
What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.
~ John Flavel
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.
~ John F. Kennedy
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
~ Robin Cook
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
~ Abraham Lincoln
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
~ Wendell Berry
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
~ Winston Churchill
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
~ Eamon de Valera
It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.
~ David Gemmell
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
~ Sun Tzu
It is not a war. It is murder.
~ Noam Chomsky
Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton.
~ Julian Assange
The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.
~ Paul P. Harris
We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
~ Henry David Thoreau