In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
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