Bases Quote by Jaron Lanier

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

— Daisaku Ikeda

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 is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in…

— Anonymous

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

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 is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external…

— Edmund Burke

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this…

— Martin Van Creveld

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...…

— Howard Zinn

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to…

— Sheryl Crow

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…

— C. S. Lewis

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel