Quotes about Conflict
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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