Internal War Quotes

#1. The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance and initiates an internal war that manifests differently in each individual, but almost always includes anger, withdrawal and severe depression.

B.G. Bowers

#2. When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out ... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

Byron Katie

#3. That internal war doesn't seem like a product of genetic damage - it seems completely, purely human.

Veronica Roth

#4. I simply write what I want, wish, long to write ... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

Tanith Lee

#5. We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

Tonya Hurley

#6. Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

Adolf Hitler

#7. Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#8. Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

#9. And I could see his internal struggle become an all out war. "It wouldn't have made a difference. Not with Adrian involved," he said ... "I meant it. I won't be that guy Rose. I won't be that man that takes someone else's girlfriend.

Richelle Mead

#10. Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in against him. He might, however, neutralize Elizabth by supporting her internal Catholic enemies, even provoking civil war.

Peter Padfield

#11. Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.

Talaat Pasha

#12. The greatest war we fight is the one within ourselves.

Eric Christopher Jackson

#13. [But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ...

Ahad Ha'am

#14. War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.

Kenneth Waltz

#15. A state is a power structure that promotes law inside but war outside. It is in its essence a very large gang. Internal laws of harmony maintain its power, and external acts of violence advance its power.

Peter Sjostedt-H

#16. I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.

Jody Williams

#18. Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.

Alexander Guchkov

#19. faith is an internal tug-of-war, not an external fight.

Elisa Medhus

#20. No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#21. How shallow to presume war exists only within the physical world. Battles are waged for mind and soul, where things far from comprehension are confronted.

Christopher Hawke

#22. Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations - consciously or not - that war makes them more secure against internal trouble.

Howard Zinn

#23. Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

Leonard Leventon

#24. The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#25. Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

Adolf Hitler

#26. The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us ... than the need for any external expansion of our power.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#27. A man without a filter, is chaos walking

Patrick Ness

#28. Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.

Starhawk

#29. The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

Howard Zinn

#30. The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive.

Daniel Yergin

#31. When a person doesn't understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn't search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn't understand.

Anton Chekhov

#32. I am in favor of a national bank ... in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

Abraham Lincoln

#33. Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

Bob Saget

#34. To say yes to your dreams means the internal and external war, battle, confrontation and warfare. But it doesn't mean you should give up on your dreams because you were already given the capacity and ability to overcome the adversary, before the foundations of the earth.

Euginia Herlihy

#35. We don't punish people because they are evil, but because they make bad choices, choices that are bad for the herd. Morality isn't heaven-sent or eternal, just a set of rules that benefit the herd.

Jo Nesbo

#36. She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner.

Dodie Smith