Public affairs Quote by C.S. Lewis

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty

“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as…

— William Struse

“War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,”

— Jack L. Chalker

“War became less about machine-gun chatter and spectacular explosions and more about people.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“War...strengthened the position of the armament industries...to a point...that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations...war barbarised…

— Doris Lessing

“Whatever is the cause of taxes to a Nation, becomes also the means of revenue to Government. Every war terminates with an addition of…

— Thomas Paine

“today the expense of modern warfare far outweighs any economic benefits it achieves.”

— Ben Carson

“War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“From what I’ve seen, the operations of war are constituted less of glorious attacks and valiant defences and more of an ongoing succession of…

— Steven Pressfield

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an…

— Simone Weil

“War is fought over futile and feudal things. War is not about ideology, no matter how artfully framed, but it’s simply about power and…

— Jarod Kintz

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

— Pieter Geyl