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Quotes About Conflict

humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity
~ Mouloud Benzadi
War does one good—it teaches people geography.
~ Will Durant, The Age of Faith
The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik
~ Chris Hedges
Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.
~ Clifford Cohen
Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.
~ Clifford Cohen
A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".
~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.
~ Aleksandra Layland
The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan
~ Tom Hanks
Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.
~ Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war
~ Jeannette Rankin
It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.
~ John Hersey
Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.
~ Terry Kay
War is like a fire - if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.
~ Erasmus, Against War
War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
~ Winston S. Churchill
War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.
~ Samuel Moyn
What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?
~ Debasish Mridha
We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.
~ Erasmus, Against War
There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.
~ Criss Jami
Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.
~ Ursula Franklin
Peace is not the absence of war—peace is the absence of fear.
~ Ursula Franklin
Going to war to establish peace will not bring peace. It will just kill you.
~ Debasish Mridha