Quotes About Conflict

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

War never leaves where it found a nation.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

Peace is more difficult than war.