Quotes About Conflict

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

Ukraine told me I couldn't return. They put me on a list of terrorists and war criminals.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war.

War is brutal, barbaric and bloody.

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.

There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.

On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.