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It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. — Charles Darwin

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

If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing. — Craig Stone

And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. — Ruskin Bond

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. — Herodotus

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. — Alan Watts

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. — Mike Norton

It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes. — Kate Williams

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. — George R R Martin

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. — Martin Cruz Smith

The nature of war is constant change. — Sun Tzu

We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners. — G.K. Chesterton

War is not human nature. It is a habit. — Gregg Braden

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military. — Steven Magee

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. — Jonathan Swift

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. — Voltaire

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest. — Theodosius Dobzhansky

The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it. — Auliq Ice

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another. — Matthew Henry

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature. — Richard Engel

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. — Herman Melville

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war. — Immanuel Kant

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. — Karl Brandt

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. — Aldous Huxley

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. — Madeline Miller

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. — Rachel Carson

I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning. — John McPhee

We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace. — Anthony Liccione

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. — Aberjhani

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life. — Herbert

Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature. — Camille Paglia

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up. — Josh Ritter

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam. — Mosab Hassan Yousef

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. — James Madison

When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat. — Ronald P. Chavez

all nature is at war — Alphonse Pyrame De Candolle

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other. — William Golding

Updates from Coin about the nature of the bombs. Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to its status, we're in the — Suzanne Collins

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry. — Caleb Deschanel

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction. — Lesslie Newbigin

Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. — Alexander Hamilton

The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology. — Murray Rothbard

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature. — Robert Harris

This constant basso on the horizon
is it the waterfall
or the cannon
("Poem") — Paul Dermee

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. — Herodotus

Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe. — Debasish Mridha

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

War grows out of ordinary human nature. — Bertrand Russell

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes. — A.H. Septimius

The better angels of our nature — Abraham Lincoln

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song. — Phoenix Desmond

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight. — Talib Kweli

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range. — Mark Boal

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195 — Robert Harris

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly. — Angelina Jolie

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind? — Debasish Mridha

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. — Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The poor homosexuals
they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS). — Pat Buchanan

When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally. — Miyamoto Musashi