Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.