Quotes About Conflict

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.