Quotes about Conflict
You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
— Madeleine Albright
War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
— Cicero
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
— Margaret Atwood
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
— Margaret Mead
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
— Mark Vonnegut
The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
— Will Rogers
No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
— Theodore Roosevelt
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
— Thomas Jefferson
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
— Thomas Jefferson
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
— Victor Hugo
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
— William James