Quotes About Conflict

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

I think war is a dangerous place.

in old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all around us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. No ever will for there is something of each in every man.

She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk

In fact, Duncan wouldn't be the least bit surprised to hear his brother say something like, "Hand over the bimbo before someone gets hurt.

You never get mad," she said when their server left the table. "Except at me." "That's not true," he said tightly. "Torie can get me going." "Torie doesn't count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life.

He wanted to shake her until every one of her chattering teeth hit the ground. "What the hell are you trying to say? Why did she choose me?" Jodie eyed him warily. "Because she thinks you're stupid.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. "There's only one good use for a man like Heath Champion." "Here we go again," Molly muttered. Phoebe's lip curled. "Target practice.

He wanted to protect her and fuck her and comfort her and destroy her all at once. The chaos of his emotions coiled around his pain, deepening the agony.