War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
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War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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