Accounts Quote by Charles Krauthammer

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

— Anton Chekhov

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

— Lester B. Pearson

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of…

— Geoff Mulgan

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

— Heraclitus

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political…

— Mao Zedong

“The explanation is that it is rivals rather than enemies who hamper our beginnings, and it is against them we fight until the great…

— Jean d'Ormesson

The nature of war is constant change.

— Sun Tzu

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

— Rick Perry

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of…

— Karl Jaspers

“...the fight that political philosophers have always identified as the central conflict in human history: that between the individual and society. Thus far, scholars…

— Thaddeus Russell

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

— Desmond Tutu