Quotes About Conflict

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

There's never any guarantee at war.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.