Quotes about Conflict

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

I like hitting people. The best feeling is when you hit so hard, pow! You get a jarring headache.

My family is used to all manner of controversy.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

Oftentimes, the hottest fires of hell are fueled from within.

You served your country. That was an honorable thing." "I wish it were that simple," he said. "I risked my life and had no idea what I was fighting for—a corrupt dictatorship that represented almost everything we're fighting against?