Quotations

«Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.»

«Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.»

«National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.»

«Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian schools. They eagerly play sports such as rugby, boxing, karate, lacrosse, and football. They drive fast cars, usually sports cars. They play hard. They drink hard. They are physical, often abusive among each other. They are not trying to prove their manhood: they are celebrating their masculinity. They are competitive, often vulgar, and tough, and every citizen who may someday send a friend or relative into war should rejoice, because combat is competitive, vulgar, and tough, and they will be leading men in combat.»

«Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.»

«Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.»

«Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.»

«More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.»

«More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.»

«My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.»