Quotes About Conflict

Maybe because I do not like the idea of my grandmother and someone like Josef still coexisting in this world.

Niekas nepradeda karo- ar bent jau ne vienas protingas zmogus neturetu jo pradeti - tvirtai nesuvokdamas, ka siuo karu jis ketina pasiekti ir kaip jis ketina kariauti.

No one starts a war – or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it. – CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ, Vom Kriege

There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

Anna is thirteen. Anna lives with her mother. Anna's mother is opposing counsel. How can Anna possibly live in the same home and not be swayed by Sara Fitzgerald?

I hated him. Not for fooling me into trusting him, or even for beating me. But because he made me lose the compassion I had for the enemy.

Religion often gets in the way of God.' – BONO, AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, FEBRUARY 2, 2006

The papers were caught between our bodies, a wedge to drive us apart, like any other lie.

You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans' having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored. The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It gave a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it. The

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Wars in the past often accelerated social reform, provided technological benefits, even sparked artistic activity. This one, however, seemed tailor-made to provide none of these positive by-products.

Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political

In Norman's mind, there were no enemies in war. Just victims. Victims of historical process. Heavy

V??ná válka je daleko spíÅ¡ dílem odsuzujícím válku, než antimilitaristickým románem

Jsem proti válce, ne proti voják?m.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

Madeline decides Jonathan is an immature, selfish asshole and that she is never talking to him again.

What Communism was to the twentieth century, Islam will be for the next one hundred years.19

Kim Sun-il died

Quarrels and acts of violence go hand in hand with the ceremonious abdication of all pride, of which they are the reverse. Noble families disputed fiercely for that same precedence in church by which they courteously pretended to set little store.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.