Quotes About Conflict

People are deceived and drawn on step by step, till war, death and destruction are upon them.

La guerra es el infierno

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

My aim then was, to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

Somehow, our men had got the idea that South Carolina was the cause of all our troubles; her people were the first to fire on Fort Sumter, had been in a great hurry to precipitate the country into civil war, and therefore on them should fall the scourge of war in its worst form.

I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

How can we get what we really want and at the same time deal with the needs of others in our lives? Perhaps no human dilemma is more pervasive or challenging.

For every ounce of power you use, you need to add an ounce of conciliation. Let

Take Away Their Stick If the other's reaction to our No is to hurt or threaten us, our first instinct may be to hurt them back. A more effective strategy, however, is to neutralize the impact of their behavior. If, as in the story of the Zen master, they are threatening to hit you with a stick, don't hit them back; just take away the stick. In other words, don't attack the other, but simply remove their ability to attack you.

For those who were openly hostile toward her, no explanation would be understood.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Something between a hindrance and a help.

Men lies about that,Some of 'em cries about that,Some of 'em dies about that,Everybody fightin' about a spoonful,That spoon, that spoon, that.

Like Uncle Si says, it's never a good family reunion when you start firing relatives.

Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede." ("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.) Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

Blood Brothers

The worst-tempered people I`ve ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

We will speak of what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.