Quotes About Conflict

Years hence it will be possible for nations to fight without armies, ships or guns, by weapons far more terrible, to the destructive action and range of which there is virtually no limit. A city, at any distance whatsoever from the enemy, can be destroyed by him and no power on earth can stop him from doing so.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

You've got a devil inside you, as well, but you don't know his name yet, and, since you don't know that, you can't breathe. Baptise him, boss, and you'll feel better!

What sort of madness comes over us to make us throw ourselves on another man, when he's done nothing to us, and bite him, cut his nose off, tear his ear out, run him through the guts - and all the time, calling on the Almighty to help us! Does it mean we want the Almighty to go and cut off noses and ears and rip people up?

You, too, have a devil inside you but you still don't know his name and because you don't know his name, you suffocate. Baptize him, Boss, and you'll find relief.

Love is not unarmed," said Jesus, looking at the centurion's cold blue eyes, his freshly shaven cheeks and fat, short-fingered hands. "Love too makes war and runs to the assault.

My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh...and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.

Each man acquires the stature of the enemy with whom he wrestles.

Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.

They thirsted to fight because the war existed, and because it had been officially declared admirable and patriotic to kill. That was enough.

Native-born Protestants loathed and oppressed Catholics and immigrants, and Catholics and immigrants scorned and murdered Negroes, as if each group fed off its hate, needing the nourishment provided by the bone marrow of someone weaker.

Los protestantes nativos aborrecían y oprimían a católicos e inmigrantes, y los católicos e inmigrantes despreciaban y asesinaban a los negros, como si cada grupo viviera de su odio y necesitara el alimento que proporcionaba el tuétano de alguien más débil.

era capaz de rezar y odiar al mismo tiempo.

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: "You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.

Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans.

So we march on, following our leaders, toward an "Armageddon of our own making.

War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.

In the case of Israel-Palestine, a one-state solution will arise only on the U.S. model: with extermination or expulsion of the indigenous population.

counterinsurgency"—a standard term for terrorism that we direct.