The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.
Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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