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Quotes About Conflict

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.
~ Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
War is not nice.
~ Barbara Bush
War made the state, and the state made war
~ Charles Tilly
Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.
~ Tracy Chapman
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
~ Thomas Paine
You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.
~ Paul Langan, The Fallen
They won the war but lost the peace,
~ Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin
My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.
~ Elle Jasper, Afterlight
Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.
~ Patricia Briggs, Frost Burned
Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.
~ Toba Beta
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
~ Heinrich Heine
Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!
~ Terry Pratchett, Jingo
They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!
~ Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
War is just demographics in a hurry.
~ Gary Brecher, The War Nerd
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
~ Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them."Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?
~ Erin Hunter, Night Whispers
If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted.
~ Christy Leigh Stewart
Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.
~ Rachel Caine
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
~ Helen Thomas
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood
~ Otto von Bismarck
Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
~ Philip Caputo, A Rumor Of War
But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
~ Wilfred Owen, The War Poems
Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.
~ Patrick J. Buchanan