Quotes About Conflict

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Any peace is better than any war

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me

My subject is war, and the pity of war.