Quotes About Conflict

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

The Iraq war was not necessary.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

War is an admission of failure

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.