Quotes about Conflict

They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.

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.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

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.

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.

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.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.