Quotes About Conflict

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that Bush lied and people died, and we were all over the Middle East.

Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?

I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.