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Quotes About Conflict

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
~ Abraham Lincoln
War is not a thing one wants.
~ Hans Frank
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.
~ Susan Jacoby
The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
~ George S. Patton
In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.
~ Walter Schellenberg
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
~ Ernest Lawrence
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
~ Barry Goldwater
I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
~ Helen Keller
My sentence is for open war.
~ John Milton
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
~ Alexander Cockburn
I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
~ Bashar al-Assad
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
~ Alice Walker
The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Fair is fair; all love is war.
~ Kyle Busch
The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.
~ Edward Dunlop
war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.
~ Vida Dutton Scudder
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
~ Albert Einstein
There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?
~ Tenzin Palmo
Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.
~ Jurgen Habermas
My voice is still for war.
~ Joseph Addison