Quotes About Conflict

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.