Quotes About Conflict

You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other dumb bastard die for his.

A war for technology supremacy.

He just said the powers that be had trouble making up their minds, the terrorists were even more despicable than civilians could comprehend, which most would be surprised was possible, and that he had lost his two closest friends.

Upton Sinclair?" "Yes. The quote is something like, 'It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

But while the West often failed to understand the motivations of these extremists, the extremists understood the motivations of the West only too well. They found the West soft. Gullible. Stupid. Its media easily manipulated.

But there was no understanding an ideology this rabid, this diseased. Who could understand a woman who would strap a bomb on a child and send him or her into a crowded square?

I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III.

The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Because of a steel shortage brought about by war preparations

What you're doing would be like us allying with Russia against England, our closest friend.

the ocean continued to slam angrily into the cliff wall far below as if raging against the audacity of our barbaric species.

she would say he had raped her, getting

I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'" Altschuler

Hell, I was pretty sure I still loved her, even though I now hated her also.

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

I had been taught that going into battle with someone you loved—especially a subordinate—was a terrible idea, because it led to suboptimal decisions.

We both absently pulled handguns from our holsters and extended them outward.

Richard Kemp, commander of British forces in Afghanistan, had written in a formal report that, "The Taliban's use of women to shield gunmen as they engage NATO forces is now so normal it is deemed barely worthy of comment.

The United States and China are locked in a cold tech war, and the winner will end up dominating the twenty-first century.

Neville Chamberlain, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in a letter.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?