Quotes About Conflict

It has always been easy to hide violence with declarations of peace.

We see reappearing in the revolution the very struggles it was meant to move beyond.

The negative has its positive side, the positive its negative, and it is precisely because each has its contrary within itself that they are capable of passing into one another, and perpetually play the role of warring brothers in history.

It is impossible to be an anti-Communist and it is not possible to be a Communist.

La consigna para todo peronista, esté aislado o dentro de una organización, es contestar a una acción violenta con otra más violenta. Y cuando uno de los nuestros caiga, caerán cinco de los de ellos. […] Que

Por eso, yo contesto a esta presencia popular con las mismas palabras del 45: a la violencia le hemos de contestar con una violencia mayor. Con nuestra

Is that where you took care of him? In a restroom?" "No. I walked him out to the runway and threw him in front of a Boeing.

First, the weather got hotter every day, and the hay press broke down every day. Second, the boss fell in love with Marian Wray, and the hay press broke down every day. Third, inside of forty-eight hours everybody on that crew hated everybody else, and the hay press broke down every day. Fourth, and most important of all, the hay press broke down every day.

But then, there's a thing that's harder to watch than a sword or nitroglycerin. It cuts and it tears—a tongue does!

Use your head; cut off theirs.

you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.

If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

The domestic lesson of the 1950–53 war that wrecked Harry Truman's presidency was that, though Americans were willing to pay other people to die combating 'Reds' in faraway Asian countries, they resisted seeing their own boys sacrificed.

Until 1943, when Stalingrad and bombing began to change everything, most German civilians save those who lost loved ones found the conflict a numbing presence rather than a trauma.

A Russian, the poet David Samoilov, said later, "We were all expecting war. But we were not expecting that war.

in intelligence as in everything else related to conflict victory is gained not by the side that makes no mistakes, but by the one that makes fewer than the other side. By

The prime principle of employing force in pursuit of national objectives is to ensure that it is effective. The Germans failed to achieve this against Britain in 1940–41, a first earnest of one of the great truths of the conflict: while the Wehrmacht often fought its battles brilliantly, the Nazis made war with startling ineptitude. The Luftwaffe, instead of terrorising Churchill's people into bowing to Hitler's will, merely roused them to acquiesce in defiance.

The Russians eventually killed more than 4.5 million German soldiers, while American and British ground and air forces accounted for only about 500,000.

Polish women and children were used as human shields for the advance of German troops.

What the Red Army did in Germany was the darkest stain on its record in the war.

All men who participate in wars find themselves obliged to do things which, if they are decent people, they afterwards regret.

One Russian soldier in four died, against one in twenty British Commonwealth combatants and one in thirty-four American servicemen.