War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
War is the science of destruction.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.