The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it.... →
Anthony Minghella
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Ludwig von Mises
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
Peace and not war is the father of all things.