Quotes About Conflict

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

We still seek no wider war.

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry the hatred about the murder of 5 million people on to another World War.

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you'll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)