Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.
War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
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