Quotes About Conflict

It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.

I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

Soldiers train for war, but pray for peace

The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.

What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

In times of war, the law falls s

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, " he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.

He thinks Goliath can end the war, " Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all, " Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.