“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”

“The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cellby cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy,insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.”

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”

“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.”

“Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.”

“Who understands war: the solders? the homeless ones? Mussolini? Or the leaders of the English and the Americans? No, nobody understands war, they only think they do. Maybe the earth that drinks up the blood understands it and says: "How foolish is man. Of all the animals that lives upon me, he is the cleverest and the most foolish.”