Quotes About Conflict

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

Israel is run by war criminals...

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

Defense is the first act of war.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.

Peace is obtained by war.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.