Quotes About Conflict

So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. And we're still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have left.

Screw you, Aech! And your dead grandma!

Being forced to sit between my mortal enemy and my ex-girlfriend every afternoon made seventh-period math feel like my own private Kobayashi Maru, a brutal no-win scenario designed to test my emotional fortitude.

Maybe every time an intelligent species grew advanced enough to invent a global computer network, they would then develop some form of social media, which would immediately fill these beings with such an intense hatred for one another that they ended up wiping themselves out within four or five decades.

A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?

If we don't end war, war will end us. —H. G. Wells

His proclamation was met with a deafening roar of shouted threats, insults, and colorful profanity.

You know: "dogs and cats living together Ã¢â'¬Â¦ mass hysteria!

But these were real aliens we were fighting—sentient beings with highly advanced technology, intent on destroying us. And we were outnumbered thousands to one. We should've been dead a hundred times already. Were humans really just better at war than they were, or all this time, had the aliens been throwing the game?

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.

Since then, we'd used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.

He chuckled softly. I wanted to sock him in the face.

And then it was on like Red Dawn.

Strong with the Dark Side of the Force that place is. In you must go, mofo.

You know: "dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!

Oh yes, I am of the opinion, too, that war is a very bad thing. I do not want war. My tribe does not want war. But,' he added, unconsciously echoing the shibboleth common to all mankind, 'how can we live at peace with our neighbours when they want war and are always making war?

He liked the woods and the iron-cold air, and he liked snapping the rifle to his shoulder as the game came into view. But he did not like the killing, the thing lying there, bewildered, eyes open.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

If I ain't nothing but trouble, you ain't nothing but Nothing.

The problem with organized religions, Bill Wilson once explained, "is their claim how confoundedly right all of them are.