Quotes About Conflict

Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory.

You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh

killing if they were to survive. All the things that gentled a man had been left behind. Humour, decency, a sense of fairness – all those made him weak when another tried to cut his head from his shoulders. Xanthippus

The wolf brothers can tear each others into pieces, no matter the blood kinship

Your people will be torn from the land for this, Tartar. Your gers will burn and your herds will be scattered.

Although we should hope for peace, we must be prepared for war

Las pequeñas batallas son solo un preludio para guerras amyores

War does not ask which of its victims deserves to die and which does not. It is indiscriminate. Innocent as well as guilty fall before it.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. C. G. JUNG

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

War may be 'declared'; peace cannot.

Sharper than a serpent's fang is a woman's tongue

There is no need why you should want me for a brother. I am German, I shall always be German. You do not like how I behave. Your brother, Midshipman Ginger, called me by names of contempt.Let me go, Herr Dym; let me go." Through the gloom he saw the Englishman's eyes looking at him, resolute and grave."Anthony", said Dym quietly, "it is just because you are my brother that I cannot let you go.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Believe me, Lang, the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive … for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day.

Along Dog Green and Dog White, a crusty fifty-one-year-old general named Norman Cota strode up and down in the hail of fire, waving a .45 and yelling at men to get off the beach. Along the shingle, behind the sea wall and in the coarse beach grass at the base of the bluffs, men crouched shoulder to shoulder, peering at the general, unwilling to believe that a man could stand upright and live.

Sergeant Donald Gardner of the 47th and his men were dumped into the water about fifty yards from shore. They lost all of their equipment and had to swim in under machine-gun fire. As they struggled in the water, Gardner heard someone say, "Perhaps we're intruding, this seems to be a private beach.

Where they make a desert, they call it peace.

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don't you're a fool. ("Jane Brown's Body")

What did he make of the news that President Wilson was sending American troops to France?

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.