Form Quote by Simone Weil

The cause of war is preparation for war.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

War is a specific product of civilization.

— Lewis Mumford

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

— Alexander Hamilton

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is…

— Sun Tzu

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

— Edmund Burke

The principal cause of war is war itself.

— C. Wright Mills

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the…

— Elie Ducommun

“(1) War becomes a completely isolated act, which arises suddenly, and is in no way connected with the previous history of the combatant States.…

— Carl von Clausewitz

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 is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they…

— H. R. McMaster

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives…

— Jacque Fresco