Quotes About Conflict

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Boys are the cash of war.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.