Quotes About Conflict

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

War knows no law except that of might.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.