Quotes About Conflict

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.