Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

the will can obey the passions instead of the reason, and this accounts for the fact that we often know what is good and what is evil—even what is good for us, what is truly best for us, for our own ultimate happiness—and yet choose evil over good, choose what we know is not in our own best interests. We can choose misery over joy if our will, led by our passions, commands our mind to focus on the short-range pleasures and ignore the long-run miseries.

war between paralyzed telepaths.

We exploit science to make war because we are warlike creatures.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

War is just an effect, not a cause.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.