Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.
Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
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.