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Quotes About Conflict

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
~ Adolf Hitler
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
~ Pope John Paul II
Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.
~ Adolf Hitler
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
~ Herman Kahn
How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.
~ Jean Sasson
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
~ David Gemmell
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
~ Georges Clemenceau
It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
~ Thomas Keating
Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.
~ Dustin Hoffman
The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
~ Robert Buettner, Overkill
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
~ Veronica Roth
I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things
~ Mira Grant
We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.
~ Donald Trump
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
~ David Mitchell
This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
~ Dr. John
It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.
~ Suzanne Collins
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
~ Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.
~ Denis Leary