Quotes About Conflict

War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

She borrowed in harmony and paid back in war

Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics.

I'm tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.

Imprisoned peace sets the war free

In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.

I'm not a hero but I can end the war

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.

Will you stay in Germany?''No. Somewhere different.''Like where?''Somewhere there was no war. Ireland maybe.

Discord on one level is harmony on another

Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change.

War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.

Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years.""I hope that's not true", I said.

Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.