Quotes About Conflict

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

War is good business Invest your son

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.