Attraction Quote by Chris Hedges

“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It…

— Chris Hedges

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 seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love…

— Immanuel Kant

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“The fundamental principle underlying all justifications of war, from the point of view of human personality, is ‘heroism’. War, it is said, offers man…

— Julius Evola

It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of…

— Thucydides

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics,…

— Chris Hedges

The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love…

— Joseph Rotblat

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam