Accepting Quote by Marya Mannes

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

“Essentally combat is an expression of hostile feelings. But in the large-scale combat that we call war hostile feelings often have become merely hostile…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

— U Thant

lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's…

— Oprah Winfrey

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

“The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception”

— Steven Pinker

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

— Gilbert Parker

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of…

— Erich Fromm

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone…

— Barbara Kingsolver

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of…

— Kenneth Waltz