Quotes About Conflict

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

The root of war is fear.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.