Quotes about Conflict
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
— Alfred Nobel
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
— Shimon Peres
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
— Ellen Glasgow
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
— Pablo Picasso
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
— Harry S. Truman
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
— Albert Einstein
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
— Pope John Paul II
People do not make wars; governments do.
— Ronald Reagan