Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
War
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
-Plato
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it
-Havelock Ellis
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
-Homer
"Iliad"
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
-Jasper Fforde
"The Eyre Affair"
We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
-Havelock Ellis
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein
