Quotes About Conflict

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

War is a horribly fascinating thing.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

The brazen throat of war.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.