National Conflict Quotes

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed.

When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.

You know how absurd is the fiction put forward by our enemies in the Northern states that the great Civil War which raged between 1861 and 1865 would never have taken place but for Jefferson Davis and myself. Such mighty convulsions, which amount indeed to revolutions, are never the work of individuals, but of divided nations.

As European history makes painfully clear, a return to aggressive nationalism could be dangerous, not just for the continent but also for the world.

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

When two nations have competing national identities, the solutions are either imposed though force by one side over the other or require a new conception of identity that allows for compromise.

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there is nothing that levels the playing field more than the arts.

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

…sanctions applied to a large nation meant war. They bred “incurable hatreds”.

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

The struggle, begun this morning upon the hustings of your old town, is not a struggle between two men—it is a struggle between two countries. On the one side, the side of the Whig candidate, hangs the red banner beneath which your senate has been sacked, your commerce has been wrecked, your nobility has been dishonored, your peasants have been starved. On the other side … floats the green flag beneath which your senate sat, your commerce thrived, your nobility honored, your peasants prospered.