Bears Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

— Lawrence S. Wittner

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

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

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of…

— Kenneth Waltz

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

— Daisaku Ikeda

“You think wars get started because some duke gets shot, or someone cuts off one’s ear, or someone’s sited their missiles in the wrong…

— Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous…

— Prince Charles

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national…

— William Kirby

Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.

— Kohta Hirano

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

“My problem is the opposite of mankind's: not having gone into battle often enough, not having waged enough war. I've always shied from confrontation,…

— Steven Rowley