Quotes About Conflict

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.