Quotes About Conflict

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.

The weak against the strong Is always in the wrong.

The inevitableness the idealism and the blessing of war as an indispensable and stimulating law of development must be repeatedly emphasized.

Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.

War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

Wars and rumours of wars.

And this I hate - not men nor flag nor race But only War with its wild grinning face.

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.