conflict quotes

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

People like to talk about war.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

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

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

War settles nothing.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

People do not make wars; governments do.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

War is what happens when language fails.

War is the business of barbarians.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The world is too violent right now.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.