Quotes About Conflict

Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it.

Some people say we are on the verge of the second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerfulness kept breaking in.

The clock strikes one that just struck two – Some schism in the sum; A sorcerer from Genesis Has wrecked the pendulum.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

In violence we forget who we are, just as we forget who we are when engaged in sheer perception.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

There has been war since the beginning of time and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.

What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments t' unveil.

...there hardly ever existed such a thing as a bad Peace — or a good War...

Peace is the short interval when nations toil to pay the costs of past and future wars.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Courage in war is safer than cowardice.

War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable.

But men are so serious. Why? Why violence? Why hatred? Why war? If people want to make war, they should make a colour war, and paint each others city up during the night in pinks and greens.

This world is not a Sunday School; it is a slaughter-house, and always has been. Peace or war, what does it matter? There is no such thing as peace, and never can be. Competition is just peaceful war with far more cruel weapons than either shot or shell. War is competition stripped of all disguise — without the velvet glove.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this — no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

I am fixed in awe at the mighty conflict to which two great nations are advancing, and recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands, & of the labor of millions of our fellow-creatures?

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.

A mugwump is a man in politics who never votes for anybody, but who is always voting against somebody.

A small wrong from a friend makes a greater wound in a man's heart than a great wrong from an enemy.