War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.