Quotes About Conflict

Iraq and all over the Middle East.

men in close combat

Economic crises breed war.

Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.

For the student of war, the Horn of Africa offers a cornucopia of violence and destruction. It has interstate wars and civil wars; international military interventions and maritime piracy; genocidal massacres and non-violent popular uprisings; conventional wars fought in trenches and irregular wars fought by jihadists and followers of a messianic cult.

Peter Schmeichel, Paul Ince, Bryan Robson, Roy Keane, Mark Hughes and Eric Cantona could all start a fight in an empty house.

The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.

Whenever you show up in a new role, it will not be long before you have to face trouble and a clash over something. There is nothing to be gained by stirring it up yourself. Trouble will find you quick enough.

Unfair. So. Unfair. Someone says something about you, and just because they said it first—because you were trying to be nice and not complain, you're in the position of denying it

You'll leave. And then one day you'll come back, and everything that you once loved about the place will drive you a little bit crazy.

You'll leave. And then one day you'll come back, and everything you used to love about the place will drive you a little bit crazy.

Italian foe in Sicily. From now on, the men

Ninety percent of all German combat deaths had in fact occurred fighting the Soviets, who had suffered and sacrificed most to defeat Hitler: an astounding 65 percent of all Allied fatalities.

The news was far from encouraging. The Germans were waging a stunningly successful campaign of blitzkrieg—lightning war—coordinating massed tank attacks with strikes from the air, in particular from a new dive bomber, the Junkers 87, which

As President Lincoln in his final days acknowledged, the only way to win and preserve a peace is to afford the loser some dignity.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

In the name of patriotism you are ordered to stop being decent and honest, to cease being yourself, to suspend your own judgment, and give up your life; to become a will-less cog in a murderous machine, blindly obeying the order to kill, pillage, and destroy; to give up your father and mother, wife and child, and all that you love, and proceed to slaughter your fellow-men who never did you any harm — who are just as unfortunate and deluded victims of their masters as you are of yours.

Inside my soul, the spring of love Will not replace the stormy weather.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.