Quotes About Conflict

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

All policies allowed in war and love.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Laws are inoperative in war

People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.

When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.