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War Quotes by Immanuel Kant
- Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
- The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.
- Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised…
- With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
- No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have…
- In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
- Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
More War Quotes
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