Quotes About Conflict

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

War is out of date, obsolete.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace