Quotes about Conflict
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?
- Audrey Hepburn
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
- Muhammad Ali
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
- Ulysses S. Grant
We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
- Martin Luther King III
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
- Abraham Lincoln
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
- John F. Kennedy
Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
- George Clooney
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
- Victor Hugo
Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
- Alexander Hamilton
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
- William McKinley