Quotes About Conflict

would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.

The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection;

he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel;

But here, as on so many other occasions, the Lacedaemonians proved the most convenient people in the world for the Athenians to be at war with.

THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

By Thucydides 431 BC

Phalius son of Eratocleides

Translated by Richard Crawley

preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection;

There's nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts

150 miles outside Baghdad and began shooting children. By his own account, he 'saw that children were in the room kneeling down. I

I felt like everything I ever knew and believed about my country, my career, my colleagues were a lie. The Americans I most despised had taken over the country I loved, bringing almost everyone I had once looked up to along with them.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty... Like a killer forest fire, like cancer under a microscope, any battle or bombing raid or artillery barrage has the aesthetic purity of absolute moral indifference- a powerful, implacable beauty- and a true war story will tell the truth about this, though the truth is ugly

One morning in Saigon she'd asked what it was all about 'This whole war,' she said, 'why was everybody so mad at everybody else?' I shook my head. 'They weren't mad exactly. Some people wanted one thing, other people wanted another thing.' 'What did you want?' 'Nothing,' I said. 'To stay alive.' 'That's all?' 'Yes.

He hated her. Yes, he did. He hated her. Love, too, but it was a hard, hating kind of love.

In a way I wanted to stop myself. It was cruel, I knew that, but right and wrong were somewhere else.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

Oh, man, you fuckin' trashed the fucker, Azar said. You scrambled his sorry self, look at that, you did, you laid him out like Shredded fuckin' Wheat Go away, Kiowa said. I'm just saying the truth. Like oatmeal.

It had nothing to do with morality. Embarrassment, that's all it was. And right then I submitted. I would go to the war—I would kill and maybe die—because I was embarrassed not to.

Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done.