Quotes About Conflict

The war is in our souls.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

Victory is the main object in war.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

No two wars are identical.

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.