Atmosphere Quote by Karl Marx

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 provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty…

— C. E. M. Joad

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

— Henry Giroux

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

— Dennis Weaver

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

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 takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to…

— Bruce Van Voorhis

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply…

— William Ellery Channing

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ...…

— Alice Walker

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

— George Orwell

War affects people in different ways.

— Shakin' Stevens