Quotes About Conflict

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

War is the father and king of all.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.