“He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.”
“The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.”
“All are at war with the one who wars against self.”
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
“The only war is the war against the imagination.”
“The war against death, dear Harry, is always a beautiful, noble, and wonderful, and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the war against war. But it is always hopeless and quixotic too. ”