Quotes About Conflict

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

The media never covers all the evil wars that's promoted.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.