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When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.