Quotes About Conflict

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

Barak Obama initially opposed [war in Libia].