Quotes About Conflict

Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism." We are at war with Islam.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.

... a war always ends.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.