Quotes About Conflict

Carthage must be destroyed.

And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.

A gunfight in a graveyard, Jesus Christ.

Roger, I don't know what your problem is. I don't know if it's a personal grudge, or ambition, or if you just need to get laid. But we have a fundamental difference of opinion on what our mission is. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go do my actual, legal job." He started away.

The difference between a thug and a soldier, the guy had said, was the moral courage of his cause.

Turning the other cheek was a lovely sentiment, but in the real world, it mostly resulted in matching bruises.

Cooper spun on his heel and walked away. He walked without direction or purpose, without thought or plan. His companions were Frustration and Rage, and together the three of them stalked Manhattan.

Despite what the last fifty years of American policy would suggest, 'They hit us so we're hitting back' is not a military strategy. I was taught that successful wars are waged for measurable goals. What's the goal here? I'd really like to know. What does victory look like?

Turning the other cheek was a lovely sentiment, but in the real world, it mostly resulted in matching bruises. Better

Because all the talk about preventing a war is bullshit. What they really want is to control it. They want to generate and maintain war at a low simmer. They want us all wound up and mistrusting each other. Norms and abnorms, left and right, rich and poor, all of it. The more we fear, the more we need them. And the more we need them, the more powerful they get.

the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

The war continues with no sign that it will end [...]. It's like an avalanche, started by a single gunshot, but which roars down the mountain more loudly than a thousand canons.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

Laws are silent in time of war.

In time of war the laws are silent.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Hatred is settled anger.

In times of war, the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma

War is what happens when language fails.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...