Unnecessary Conflict Quotes

To bicker over what could have been is silly.

The Vietnam War was not clearly a wrong war, but it was clear that it was stupid.

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Vietnam was not a war for us to be in …. It was a useless war.

Nothing is more usual than to see parties, which have begun upon a real difference, continue even after that difference is lost

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity

Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.

The haters want to hate. They want to talk about this and talk about that. We don't even acknowledge it.

Never fight an inanimate object.

When you're arguing with a fool, you're the fool for even going back and forth.

I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.

Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time.

I don't understand why Brandon Flowers keeps taking shots at us. Maybe he feels threatened, but he seems to be doing just fine on his own. It's pretty dumb. I mean, we're from the same town, and we've never met him.

To me, there's no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.

It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.

The first obligation towards those we love is to keep them from harm. So if we love our troops, the most important thing we can do is to send them into harm’s way only if it absolutely necessary… We have abused our troops—particularly the army and the marines.

It is a common thing for supporters of President Trump, even as early as when he was a candidate, to say, 'He fights.' And yes, he does fight. He fights everyone. He gets into all kinds of scraps that are pointless and unnecessary. He insults when he doesn't need to.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so stupid? Why do we have to go through these unnecessary exercises. Fight crime, don't fight me. If you really want to make a difference don't fight me or Fugazi.

I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.

It annoys me when contemporary films and television shows create artificial tensions that could easily be resolved by a quick email or the use of a search engine. 'La La Land' was guilty of this several times, as well as a more generalised aesthetic nostalgia.

When are we defending something that isn't worth defending anymore?

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.