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Quotes About Conflict

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
~ Frank Carson
When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
~ Fred Thompson
The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
~ George Ayittey
Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.
~ George Herbert
I want to be the peace president.
~ George W. Bush
Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.
~ George W. Bush
No matter how tough Iraq became, removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do for the sake of peace and for the 25 million people we liberated.
~ George W. Bush
A disarmed peace is weake.
~ George Herbert
Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.
~ George Will
Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.
~ Gary Zukav
I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.
~ Greg Mortenson
Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.
~ Gregory Maguire
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
~ Wendell Berry
It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.
~ Hans Blix
We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.
~ Harry S. Truman
Everything you do in war is a crime in peace
~ Helen McCloy
War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.
~ Henry Giroux
We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.
~ Hillary Clinton
... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.
~ Hillary Clinton
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.
~ Nikola Tesla
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
~ George Herbert