Quotes About Conflict

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Making peace is harder than making war.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Accursed be he that first invented war.