Quotes About War

If the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries were, in many countries of the West, times of accelerating social power, and a corollary increase in freedom, peace, and material welfare, the twentieth century has been primarily an age in which State power has been catching up—with a consequent reversion to slavery, war, and destruction.43 In

In war, State power is pushed to its ultimate, and, under the slogans of "defense" and "emergency," it can impose a tyranny upon the public such as might be openly resisted in time of peace.

Letters circulated without censorship, with a freedom that astonishes the twentieth-century mind.… The subjects of two warring nations talked to each other if they met, and when they could not meet, corresponded, not as enemies but as friends.

a war between rulers was converted into a war between peoples, with each people coming to the defense of its rulers in the erroneous belief that the rulers were defending them. This device of "nationalism" has only been successful, in Western civilization, in recent centuries; it was not too long ago that the mass of subjects regarded wars as irrelevant battles between various sets of nobles

Thus, the well-known theme of "separation of Church and State" was but one of many interrelated motifs that could be summed up as "separation of the economy from the State," "separation of speech and press from the State," "separation of land from the State," "separation of war and military affairs from the State," indeed, the separation of the State from virtually everything

War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.

And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale? What is war but mass murder on a scale impossible by private police forces? What is conscription but mass enslavement? Can anyone envision a private police force getting away with a tiny fraction of what States get away with, and do habitually, year after year, century after century?

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

The world is plunging into a selfish, deadly sociopathy of power. People unite into groups of egoism, egoism unites them, billions of people think about themselves, each group builds its own system. She collides with another system of egoism, the war of egoism in the eternal struggle for absolute power. Selfishness returns humanity to a child's consciousness.

The world is plunging into a selfish, deadly sociopathy of power. People unite into groups of egoism, egoism unites them, billions of people think about themselves, each group builds its own system. She collides with another system of egoism, the war of egoism in the eternal struggle for absolute power. Selfishness returns humanity to children's consciousness, thus children's fears rule the world.

Abortion is a war against procreation itself and the acceptance of Darwin's philosophy of natural selection.

He came for war, but I will return him in peace. Because he still hasn't conquered himself.

Love is the cause of all the wars and fighting in the world, perhaps, the whole universe.

May those who want to pray, the pious people, pray in peace. And let those who wish to fight in the war, enjoy the command of the battlefield.

Most of the terrible wars in the world are based upon religion. It seems to divide, rather than uniting. Perhaps, we are going wrong somewhere.

Peace is only beautiful if you are on the winning side.

Religion must be maintained in moderation at all costs. Because it's not good when the state is at war or at peace. The physical training of soldiers, not salvation, is necessary at all times.

The fact that your government now invests more in the military than in religion proves that no one is following the scriptures. Simply because they rely on reality and know that war cannot be avoided forever.

The so-called World War II was a primarily Germany-based battle against the Western world, including the American continent.

The state of boredom must be avoided, because it kills more than war.

The war in Ukraine makes Americans and Westerners look almost like angels when it comes to invading other nations.

There is always a civil war between heart and mind within every individual. So this is the biggest battle of all time.

To sin is to declare war on the universe and to bring disorder to the world.

Wars make a man more masculine. Hence, it is the oldest game of men that has been played in every generation.