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“Humans are by nature self-centered. It doesn’t matter how civilized or primitive they are. If they want something, they’ll find a way to get…

— Ednah Walters

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just…

— Elise M. Boulding

“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems…

— Iris Chang

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

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

— Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable…

— Stefan Zweig

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires…

— Lisa Joy

Culture means control over nature.

— Johan Huizinga

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started…

— Thomas Sowell

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream…

— Lin Yutang

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of…

— Ludwig von Mises