Quotes About Conflict

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.