Quotes About Conflict

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

When it comes to matters of war and peace, we must not act rashly.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace, ' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.

Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.