Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Why do grownups quarrel so easily, so much, and over the most idiotic things? Up till now I thought that only children squabbled and that wore off as you grew up.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done

And yet he felt as if something had happened to him with regard to her. There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. Sometimes in the private interest of royal families, Satan said, sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose--there is no such war in the history of the race.

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end.