Quotes About Conflict

To a man who came from a military culture in which pilots were given swords instead of parachutes, and in which suicide was infinitely preferable to capture, it was incomprehensible that the Chinese would not fight an enemy to the death.

Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has a monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin—one that can be easily stripped away, especially by the stresses of war.

about death and violence. Noah would deny it.

How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong.

Better be quarreling than lonesome.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War, Magda Denes

Herr Kulmbach had been saying the Führer had united the whole German nation. Which is true enough, it's just that the people making up the whole German nation don't get on with each other. But that doesn't make any difference to political unity, I suppose.

Free schools were an invention of the Devil or the Yankees, which amounted to practically the same thing.

Son, it ain't that flag we've got a gredge ag'inst, it's the fellers that air bidin' under her now. They're our middlin'-meat, or will be when the fusees start poppin'. But that flag's all hunky-dory. Come to that, she's ez much our'n ez she is ther'n. She's fell into bad company for the time bein', that's all. And it ain't her fault, ez I can see it and ez all here sees it. So let her flaunt!

You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.

Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough

For the first three weeks in June, the conquistadors and their Indian allies fought skirmishes on the outskirts of the city.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that let in the stars, warming one another, our legs intermingled. I dreamed: and in my dreams saw women. But my heart, stained with bloodshed, grated and brimmed over.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

But, children, you should never letSuch angry passions rise;Your little hands were never madeTo tear each other's eyes.

Birds in their little nests agree;And 'tis a shameful sight,When children of one familyFall out, and chide, and fight.