Conflict Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude who creates…

— Sam Hamill

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be…

— Jonathan Swift

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

— Alan Watts

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

— Abraham Lincoln

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

— Eugene McCarthy

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned…

— Christine de Pizan

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

— Rumi

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

— Ayn Rand

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

— George Friedman

War is the science of destruction.

— John Abbott