Quotes About Society

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

All progress means war with society.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

What's so civil about war anyway?

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

The more laws, the less justice.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.