Compatible Quote by William James

“The fundamental principle underlying all justifications of war, from the point of view of human personality, is ‘heroism’. War, it is said, offers man…

— Julius Evola

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

— Marianne Moore

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness…

— Dalai Lama

Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

— Paul Virilio

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows…

— Dan Simmons

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child…

— Albert Einstein

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

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations…

— Marya Mannes

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

— African Spir

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

— Steven Pinker