Quotes About Conflict

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

History is a bath of blood.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.