Subject: Conflict (Page 13)

The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

Some of my best friends are thieves; why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

Buying my wife a gun is sort of like me saying, 'You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise.'

(1963 – ) American stand-up comedian

Desert combat?… I can't even stand the walk back from the beach to the car.

comedian, television host & actor

If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

(1936 – 1989) American social & political activist

Interviewer: Can you imagine yourself killing another human.

Sedaris: Not a stranger.

(1956 – ) American humorist, comedian & author

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

If hockey fights were fake, I'd be in more of them.

professional hockey player

If I play badly I’ll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I’ll break a guy’s leg to win, I don’t care. Afterward I say, ‘Yeah, all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.'

Canadian hockey player

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.

(1973 – ) American comedian

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

There are two sides to every argument, and they’re usually married to each other.

God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

(1618 – 1693) French memoirist

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

(1828 – 1885) French novelist, publicist & journalist

You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

True friends stab you in the front.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet