“In war everybody is a prisoner.”

“The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.”

“You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!”

“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”

“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.”

“Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.”

“Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.”