Quotes About Conflict

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

There is no strength but that which is destructive, because man has lost his virtues, and only respects force, which he himself cannot counteract.

Wraps that up then, right? Praise Allah and pass the high explosive.

There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you.

We were sent to Afghanistan to carry out hugely dangerous missions. But we were also told that we could not shoot that camel drover before he blew up all of us, because he might be an unarmed civilian just taking his dynamite for a walk.

My heart dropped directly into my stomach. And I cursed those fucking goatherds to hell, and myself for not executing them when every military codebook ever written had taught me otherwise. Not to mention my own raging instincts, which had told me to go with Axe and execute them. And let the liberals go to hell in a mule cart, and take with them all of their fucking know-nothing rules of etiquette in war and human rights and whatever other bullshit makes 'em happy.

Does anybody really think a guy riding a bike toward a firefight wearing a black scarf around his head and carrying a rifle slung on his back is looking for a barbershop quartet rehearsal?

The truth is, any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one.

And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.

There aren't many degrees of separation between any of the 2.4 million men and women who've served in Iraq or Afghanistan. We've smelled the shitty air in Iraq and felt our lungs burn in the Hindu Kush. We've squeezed ourselves into Humvees and Black Hawks and been shot at. We've been stuck in slowly moving convoys, more than a little worried about what the next bump in the road will trigger.

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum — Flavius Vegetius Renatus, fourth century).

They're not their rules. They're our rules, the rules of the Western countries, the civilized side of the world. And every terrorist knows how to manipulate them in their own favor.

we believe there are very few of the world's problems we could not solve with high explosive or a well-aimed bullet.

if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

The cruise missiles had softened up the area, but that was only the start. The real heavyweight punch from the world's only superpower would come in the form of a gigantic bomb — the BLU-82B/C-130, known as Commando Vault in Vietnam and now nicknamed Daisy Cutter.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.