Quotes About Conflict

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

There are strange hells within the minds war made.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

War will make corpses of us all.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.