Quotes About Conflict

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.

Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees, Walter thought apocalyptically. Perhaps that would be for the best.

Talvez os selvagens nunca abandonem o poder - afirmou Philip com ar de desalento. - Talvez a cobiça nunca deixe de pesar mais nos conselhos dos poderosos que a sabedoria; talvez o medo nunca deixe de vencer a compaixão na mente dum homem com uma espada empunhada.

He was the kind of man George had been fighting for a decade: an ugly, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid white racist.

Ninguém está certo o tempo todo, mas, numa guerra, quando um líder se engana, pessoas morrem.

Two blades clashed, ringing like a bell. Like all small boys, Philip thought his father was invincible; and this was the moment when he learned the truth.

Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.

If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.

Desperate men are dangerous. And I do know that the United States is not ready to go to war against Japan. Our navy isn't ready and our air force isn't ready.

They carried Union Jack flags. Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Why was it, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

As in every country, Walter thought gloomily, army officers were pressing their political masters to take the first steps to war. It

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland.

If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.

Weapons seem to be the issue now, isn't it?" "Aye," said Billy. "The Germans and the Italians are supplying the rebels with guns and ammunition, as well as fighter planes and pilots. But no one is helping the elected Spanish government.

Macke went to the door. He looked at the three women: the maid, the wife, and the daughter. "All this trouble," he said, "for the sake of an eight-year-old moron. I will never understand you people.

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war—the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.

Until August the Luftwaffe had raided only ports and airfields. Fitz had explained, in an unusually candid moment, that the British were not so scrupulous: the government had approved bombing of targets in German cities back in May, and all through June and July the RAF had dropped bombs on women and children in their homes. The German public had been enraged by this and demanded retaliation. The Blitz was the result.

Repress those who complain, rather than address their discontents.

I could weep for all the innocent women and children who were burned and maimed in London—and it doesn't help at all to know that German women and children are suffering the same.

Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees