Quotes About Conflict

The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked.

Perfidious Albion.

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

War is the business of barbarians.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

In Love, Victory goes to the man who runs away

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

History paints the human heart.

'Twas my object to carry terror and destruction wherever we went.

I hunger and thirst so for a bed on the ground that, once freed, I don't believe I can ever go into New York chains again. What a problem-- to have a primeval soul and one's home in New York!

Entire wars have been based on our inability to see.

This year I have Sister Mary Joseph for Religion. Right away I could tell she was going to become my archenemy. She has a stony face with a mean squint; Clint Eastwood in a wimple. She trained the squint on me and decided I was trouble from the get-go.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

The great events in our lives are physical. Childbirth. Sex. Combat. Death. Not poetry, or music, or the thoughts of great men will flash across the transom of our minds at the moment of dying. We will remember only the moments when we felt the fibers of our body sing. Bloodily. Messily. Ecstatically.