The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
War is not civilized.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
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