Quotes About Conflict

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. 'Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.