Appreciation Quote by Cesare Pavese

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going…

— Blaise Pascal

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.…

— John Fowles

... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded…

— Ruth Benedict

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

— Don DeLillo

“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.…

— John Fowles The Magus

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to…

— Charles de Gaulle

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually…

— Ellen Key

“Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an…

— John Fowles

For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for…

— Michael Walzer

“There are always those who wish to sanitize war by portraying its grand and noble deeds-which sometimes occur-while drawing a veil over its shameless…

— John Ferling