Cases Quote by Elihu Root

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in…

— George F. Kennan

For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…

— Gwynne Dyer

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

— Bela Kiraly

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

— Gregg Braden

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

— Margaret MacMillan

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

— Frans de Waal

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state…

— Thomas Jefferson

Maintaining peace can be as strenuous as winning a war.

— Margaret MacMillan

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

— Harry S Truman

“War is good for morale and bad for morality”

— David Wisehart