War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.
It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.