Quotes about Conflict
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
— Winston Churchill
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
— Winston Churchill
Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.
— Woodrow Wilson
[The Civil War] created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.
— Woodrow Wilson
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
— Woodrow Wilson
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
— David Ogilvy
Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
— Gordon Hinckley
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
— Frank Herbert
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
— Pierre Corneille
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Pero hoy la guerra ya no es guerra. Ya no es el hombre quien cuenta, la máquina lo es todo.
— Elias Canetti