What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.