War Quotes

"War reveals the truth about civilization."

"War is the failure of culture to contain human aggression."

"War reveals the worst in human nature."

"War reveals humanity at its most irrational and most bound to ideologies."

"War is the failure of human understanding."

"War destroys the very foundations of civilization."

"War reveals both the worst and best in humanity."

"War is the failure of imagination."

"War is hell."

"The most effective and enduring form of warfare is the corruption of the enemy's consciousness."

"Whoever has emerged victorious forges the history of the vanquished."

"War is the failure of imagination on a massive scale."

"The greatest violence is done not with weapons but with the colonization of imagination."

"War is the failure to imagine alternatives."

"War is the confession that we have failed to communicate."

"War reveals the depths of social contradictions and the capacities for transformation."

"War transforms individuals and societies in ways that neither side anticipated."

"War exposes the bankruptcy of existing social orders."

"War arises from the fundamental misunderstanding of what we share in common."

"Violence is inherent in a system that normalizes domination and exploitation."

"The greatest violence is the suppression of alternative possibilities."

"War represents the ultimate failure of consciousness to recognize the other as itself."

"War is the ultimate expression of the contradictions inherent in capitalist society."

"Violence emerges when we deny the humanity of the other."

"Whoever has emerged victorious is integrated into the procession which lumbers behind him."

"War teaches us what peace should be."

"War is the failure of human understanding."

"War is the health of the state."

"War is the failure of human dialogue and understanding."

"War is a conflict between competing interests; peace is a state of reconciliation."