Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?
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.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
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