Quotes About Conflict

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

War is what happens when language fails.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

War is the trade of kings.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

Police do not belong in war zones.

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

It's an important fact of life, war.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.