If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
War remains the decisive human failure.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.