““[T]otalitarian war destroys spiritual values. One feels that everywhere. If it destroyed material values, the people, whose thinking is mostly limited by their perceptions, would know how and against what to defend themselves. As it is, the inner destruction has no correlative in the perceived world of things, of matter. So they fail to grasp the process and the possible means of countering it or renewing themselves.””
![“[T]otalitarian war destroys spiritual values. One feels that everywhere. If it destroyed material values, the people, whose thinking is mostly limited by their perceptions, would know how and against what to defend themselves. As it is, the inner destruction has no correlative in the perceived…” quote by Helmuth James von Moltke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a6/helmuth-james-von-moltke-16502_abwehr_t-otalitarian-war-destroys-spiritual-val_1756424.jpg)
