Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.