Quotes About Conflict

If each man were to lay down his weapon, and say, With a click of his heels, "I wish you Good-day," Now what, may I ask, could the Emperor do? A king and his minions are really so few.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

What lackeys men are, who might be such fine fellows! To be killing each other, unmercifully, At an order, as though one said, "Bring up the tea."

God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep, But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!

They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

The world is a chaos, an irreducible plurality of forces, instincts and drives which ceaselessly clash.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni

la Fede è violenza, qualsiasi tipo di Fede, religiosa, politica e sportiva. Dietro ogni guerra c'è sempre un uomo di Fede che ha sparato il primo colpo.

i bear witness to no thing more human than hate i bear witness to no thing more human than love

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Whom they have injured they also hate.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren't much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution

Fucking Nick

The Wars of the Roses…were one of the most confused and confusing chapters of English history; in which each usurper, as soon as he had gained the throne, found himself having to defend it against the next; in which so many members of the feuding families were closely inter-related; in which a man could be both hero and villain at one and the same time… One by one, the royal houses of England destroyed each other and themselves.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.