Quotes About Conflict

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.