Armed Conflict Quotes:

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

- Anthony Eden

source: 1956 On the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 4 Nov.

topic: War, Egypt, Conflict, Armed Conflict

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

- Peter Mandelson

topic: Want, Conflict, Plunge, Northern Ireland, Armed Conflict

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

- Omar Bongo

topic: Fighting, Order, Development, African Union, Armed Conflict

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me, but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force I should feel it should be resisted.

- Neville Chamberlain

source: "Neville Chamberlain". Book by Keith Feiling, 1946.

topic: Mind, World, Nightmare, Armed Conflict

The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.

- Graca Machel

source: Graça Machel (2001). “The Impact of War on Children: A Review of Progress Since the 1996 United Nations Report on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children”, p.13, C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

topic: Children, Responsibility, Impact, Armed Conflict

I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Believe, Leader, Needs, Armed Conflict

Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

- Roger Sherman

topic: Love, Sad, Country, American Culture, Armed Conflict

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.

- Pope Francis

topic: Children, Thinking, Light, Modern Slavery, Catholic Pro Life

You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.

- John Burroughs

topic: Law, Nuclear, Use, Armed Conflict

It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Global Village, Armed Conflict

From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.

- David Saperstein

topic: Dream, Religious, Iran, International Cooperation, Free World

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.

- Randal Marlin

source: Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.305, Broadview Press

topic: Reality, Creating, World, Armed Conflict

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

topic: War, Military, Army, Warsaw Pact, Nato

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

- Emma Goldman

source: Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.565, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Country, Conflict, All Time, Armed Conflict

As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.

- John O. Brennan

topic: Self, Law, Use, Taliban, Armed Conflict

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

- Arthur Henderson

topic: Struggle, Thinking, Order, Disarmament, Focal Point

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

- Robert Mugabe

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Commitment, Agreement, House, Democratic Process, Lancaster

Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts

- Widad Akrawi

topic: Country, Military, Effort, Fragile, Armed Conflict

When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men and women around the world who struggle for the right to speak their minds, to choose their leaders, and to be treated with dignity and respect. We also strengthen our security and well being, because the abuse of human rights can feed many of the global dangers that we confront - from armed conflict and humanitarian crises, to corruption and the spread of ideologies that promote hatred and violence.

- Barack Obama

source: "Beatings, Protests, Arrests Mark 60th Annual Human Rights Day". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2009.

topic: Struggle, Home, Men, Dignity And Respect, Armed Conflict

During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.

- G. Edward Griffin

topic: War, Government, Years, Million Dollars, Armed Conflict

Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Children, Government, Soldier, Optional, Child Soldier

We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment ... are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.

- Landon Pearson

topic: Children, War, Age, Landmines, Recruitment

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

- Wayne Allard

topic: Real, Hero, Men, Armed Forces, Real Heroes

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

- Steven Pinker

topic: Waste, Climate, Scarcity, Armed Conflict

I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was advertised to them as the Great War, and the war to end all war, and show them that we're still engaged in armed conflict in the same area, I'm not sure that they would be pleased about what their sacrifices amounted to.

- Russell Crowe

source: "THE WATER DIVINER: Russell Crowe Talks Directing, Story Selection, and His Career". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2015.

topic: War, Sacrifice, Men, Armed Conflict

We stopped the fighting in 1991 on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.

- Harry Reid

source: "Where did Syria's chemical weapons come from?" by Frank Salvato, www.breitbart.com. July 14, 2012.

topic: Fighting, Mass Destruction, Agreement, Wmds In Iraq, Resumption

Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

- Linda Colley

topic: Reality, Essentials, Warfare, Paramount, Armed Conflict

Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.

- Zainab Salbi

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: War, Moving, Healing, Armed Conflict, Health Issues

The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not whether blood will have to be shed we know not whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Two, Blood, Long, Comradeship, Anti Christ

The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology. Many more nations are seeking it, and more will succeed in acquiring it.

- John O. Brennan

topic: Technology, Firsts, Succeed, Armed Conflict

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

- Michael Mandelbaum

topic: United States, Conflict, Preparing, Armed Conflict

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

- Eric Burdon

topic: Sweet, Children, Thinking, Repercussions, Armed Conflict

The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

- George Monbiot

topic: War, People, Generations, Ww2, Armed Conflict