Quotes About Conflict

Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse' Joseph

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

There's always good men on both sides of a good fight.

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot." "That I will, unless he gets me under his." "Never easy, kicking upwards.

One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.

Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mutilated.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want.

Dimbik had once been told that the best soldiers are rarely courageous. That was when he had been sure it was the career for him. He started to slide one hand towards his sword, far from sure what he would do with it once it reached the hilt.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

Ain't they people too, though?" muttered Beck, thinking of the face of that Union man lying dead in the shack yesterday. "Just like us?" Whirrun squinted across at him. "More than likely they are. But if you start thinking like that, well… you'll get no one killed at all.

War without fire is as worthless as sausages without mustard" Henry V

You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.

In war, you seize all the high ground you can.' He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. 'Except the moral kind.' And he sucked the insides out through the hole. 'That ain't worth shit.

There's no style of contempt like the stuff one kind of savage has for another,

A man's worst enemies are his own ambitions.

Fencing is one thing,' he said. 'Actual violence quite another. Few of us are made for it. It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

Naturally, as soldiers, you all are prone to be sentimental about warfare. But fighting is only any use when it's cheaper than the alternatives.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence." —Homer

War is but the pricking point of politics.

Is this still battle? Is this still the glorious matching of man against man? Or is this just murder? He did not care. I cannot tell jokes, or make pretty conversation, but this I can do. This I am made for. Bremer dan Gorst, king of the world!

I have spent half my life in the business of destruction. The other half in the dogged pursuit of self-destruction.

This is the North," muttered Clover. "Who hasn't killed a friend or two?