Quotes About Conflict

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

History paints the human heart.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.

A Peace to End All Peace.

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.