Quotes About Conflict

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

I like war.

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

War is the epitome of hell for all involved. I know because I have been there and back.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

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

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

War is the province of danger.

That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.