Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
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