Subject: Conflict (Page 13)

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I'd rather fight than score.

Canadian hockey player

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

(1943 – ) British prime minister & politician

I want you guys to know that if we ever get into real heavy combat… I'll be right behind you guys. Every step of the way.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer

What’s a Jewish mobster?… ‘I’m going to break the legs of your therapist.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Don’t worry about the war; it’s all over but the shooting.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

An Iranian moderate is one that has run out of ammunition.

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it'll be much harder to detect.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Insider trading: Stealing too fast.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

I am at two with nature.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

War without France would be like… World War II.

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

actor, writer & editor

War is God's way of teaching us geography.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.

Everyone’s a pacifist between wars; it’s like being a vegetarian between meals.

(1938 – ) American journalist, teacher, lecturer & pacifist

If it is worth fighting for, it is worth fighting dirty for.

Man Is Fatally Slain

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor