“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”

“Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.”

“Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten.”

“A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”

“Life is the result of war, and society is the instrument of war... To refuse war means to refuse an epic life”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”