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As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military…

— Henry Giroux

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

— Heraclitus

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage…

— Benito Mussolini

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of…

— Walter Bagehot

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the…

— Randolph Bourne

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

— Percival Lowell

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the…

— Elie Ducommun

“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

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

— Harry S Truman

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state…

— John Foster Dulles

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political…

— Mao Zedong

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the…

— Ferdinand Foch