Quotes About Conflict

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

War settles nothing.

News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.

Generally, the view that I've had on Twitter is if you're on Twitter, you're in, like, the meme - you're in meme war land. If you're on Twitter, you're in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.