Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.