Habits Quote by David Livingstone Smith

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

— Aldous Huxley

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

— Gregg Braden

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records…

— Jane Goodall

“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain…

— George Orwell

“The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same fallible breed…

— Stan Goff

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

— Bertrand Russell

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

— Anonymous

“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

“Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

— Norman Cousins