Quotes About Society

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

History is a symptom of our disease

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call "war.

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.