Quotes about Conflict
Patriots can flourish only where boundaries are well-defined, hostile, and dangerous.
— James Carse
War is not an act of unchecked ruthlessness but a declared contest between bounded societies, or states. If a state has no enemies it has no boundaries.
— James Carse
They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.
— Dorothy Sayers
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
— Aldous Huxley
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
— John F. Kennedy
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
— Albert Einstein
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
— Ignatius of Antioch
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
— Denzel Washington
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.
— CS Lewis
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.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.
— Shimon Peres
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
— AA Milne