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Quotes About Conflict

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
~ Saint Augustine
In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.
~ Michel Houellebecq
The Germans, a race eager for war.
~ Seneca the Younger
I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.
~ Sam Nunn
I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.
~ Ken Gillespie
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
~ John Dos Passos
The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.
~ John Lehman
We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Peace might sell, but who's buying?
~ Joan Baez
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.
~ Nelson Mandela
He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.
~ Akkineni Nagarjuna
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
~ Saint Augustine
Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.
~ Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
~ Hillary Clinton
Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.
~ Ovid
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
~ Edward Abbey
The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.
~ Mary Deasy
You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The war is won, but the peace is not.
~ Albert Einstein