War Quotes

"War destroys what peace builds."

"War emerges not from the natural human condition, but from the failure of the practices through which we might resolve conflict."

"War reveals the worst in humanity; peace reveals the best."

"War destroys the human capacity for thinking."

"War reveals both the worst and occasionally the best in mankind."

"Violence is the attempt to reduce the Other to the Same."

"War reveals what we truly believe and value."

"War is the ultimate failure of dialogue."

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

"War does not determine who is right—only who is left."

"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within."

"In totalitarian societies, terror is used not to achieve specific goals but to maintain total control."

"War is the ultimate expression of human language's failure."

"Violence speaks what language cannot."

"Force corrodes the soul of both oppressor and oppressed."

"War is the failure of wisdom and the triumph of destructive impulse."

"War brings out both the worst and the best in human nature."

"Violence begins when we refuse to recognize the alterity of the Other."

"War reveals the depths of human depravity and the urgent need for redemption."

"War reveals the fragility of all constructed certainties."

"War is the return of what civilization thought it had overcome."

"Horror and cruelty are not exceptions but the logical consequence of totalitarian ideology."

"Violence is the midwife of new worlds, but at terrible cost."

"I say quite deliberately that the present war is a war against mankind and that every person who prizes freedom and justice should wage war against this war."

"War does not determine who is right—only who is left."

"War is a form of excess, a release of accumulated tensions."

"War is the extension of desire into the political realm."

"War is the lie of nature; peace is the truth of the soul."

"War reveals the ultimate failure of human relationship."

"Violence is inscribed in the social order."