Quotes About Conflict

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.