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.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
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.
What is more immoral than war?
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