War Quotes

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

"War begins not with weapons but with the decision to no longer see the other as human."

"War is the failure of all other forms of communication."

"The invention of the state marks the division of society into rulers and ruled."

"Violence becomes systematic only with the state."

"War begins in the failure of communication"

"War reveals the failures of understanding."

"War teaches the importance of peace."

"War arises when communication channels become severed."

"Warfare is only an invention—not a biological necessity."

"War is the creator and the sustainer of states."

"War tests the mettle of nations."

"War reveals human nature."

"To understand war, one must understand the social systems that produce it."

"War is the failure of communication and the victory of pattern-breaking."

"War reveals the fragility of the social contracts we take for granted in times of peace."

"War does not determine who is right; it determines who is left."

"War and conflict are social phenomena that must be understood in their cultural context."

"War is the failure of human reason and compassion."

"War wastes the greatest resource—human life."

"Warfare has changed more in the last two hundred years than in the previous two thousand."

"War is the forge in which civilizations prove their mettle and discover their limits."

"War strips away the pretenses of civilization and reveals the naked struggle for dominance."

"War teaches harsh lessons that peace forgets."

"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become masters of the bomb."

"Truth is the first casualty in the war between nations."

"To understand war, one must understand the peace that preceded it."

"Warfare between cultures is often more devastating than physical warfare."

"War is the failure of human wisdom and compassion."

"War is the father of all things in human civilization."