Animal Quote by Aldous Huxley

“Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of…

— David Livingstone Smith

War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But…

— Friedrich von Bernhardi

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

War is politics by other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

— Gregg Braden

Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature…

— Jaron Lanier

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain…

— George Orwell

“War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The…

— Norman Angell

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of…

— Smedley Butler