Quotes About Conflict

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace, ' 'A Farewell to Arms, ' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.

Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.

When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.

Where they make a desert they call it peace.

That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers...

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

Do not allow yourself to be aggravated by someone's anger. Stay calm.

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.