Quotes About Conflict

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

Few Allied generals can have hated each other more than Patton and Montgomery.

Patton loved war; Monty loved himself.

We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket …

In little over a month, a handful of poorly armed and largely untrained men had brought one of the greatest royal houses of Europe to its knees.

consistency, a virtue I have always deplored.

No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.

In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.

He resented my worldview rather actively.

I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I'll pour water on her.

Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. He often had to keep her in her place.

For Christmas, Mrs. Levy always compiled not a gift list but rather a list of the injustices and brutalities she had suffered since August. The girls got this list in their stockings. The only gift Mrs. Levy asked of the girls was that they attack their father. Mrs. Levy loved Christmas.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Then the shit hit the fan.

Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

The war was and is reality for me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?

Times change, and wars change. But men don't change, do they?

Yes, he had practically saved my life. He had also practically lost it for me.

I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable, but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

because when you come right down to it the school is involved in everything that happens in the war, its all the same war and the same world...