Juliet Marillier Quotes

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

Like individuals, some peoples are naturally pacific and some naturally aggressive.

War is no more inevitable than the plague is inevitable. War is no more a part of human nature than the burning of witches is a human act.

I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.