Quotes About Conflict

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I have not yet begun to fight!

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

William Tecumseh Sherman

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.