War is the health of the state and the death of society. - Pierre Clastres

"War is the health of the state and the death of society."

Pierre Clastres War

Anthropologist French 1934–1977

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"The savage refuses to work"

"Society against the state"

"Power is the capacity to make others obey"

"Primitive societies have solved the problem of power"

"Some battles are worth fighting."

"Sometimes you have to become the monster to stop the monsters."

"Skynet sent me back through time to kill you."

"War teaches us the value of peace."