War Quotes

"Violence inhabits peace; peace is never innocent."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means"

"One makes war to exist, not the reverse."

"War is not the opposite of peace; it is inscribed within peace itself."

"War is the ultimate expression of human alienation."

"War is politics by other means, but politics is always already war."

"War reduces human beings to mere objects, denying their fundamental freedom and dignity."

"War is the failure of humanity."

"War reveals the ultimate uselessness of human projects."

"War is the failure of understanding and communication."

"War reveals the truth that peace conceals."

"The more successful the violence on behalf of an ideology, the more mythological that ideology becomes."

"War originates from want of legitimate opportunities to satisfy legitimate desires."

"War destroys not only bodies but the very possibility of mutual understanding between peoples."

"War is the failure of understanding; it represents the collapse of the interpretive capacity."

"War is a relic of barbarism."

"The moral equivalent of war—we must make new energies and hardinesses continue the manliness to which the military mind so faithfully clings."

"War is the failure of civilization."

"War reveals both the worst and best capacities of humanity."

"War is the failure of civilization."

"War is the failure of rational human society."

"Militancy and industrialism cannot coexist indefinitely."

"War is the failure of human reason."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

"War is the failure of civilization to resolve its contradictions rationally."

"War reveals both the nobility and the baseness of human nature."

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

"War leaves scars that generations must labor to heal."

"One does not go to war for religion, but one makes use of religion to go to war."

"A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the cowboy movies or in the conduct of its leaders, is a society at war with itself"