“Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.”
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VII, Some Implications Of The Third Image, p. 188
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My Day (1935–1962)
Context: In times past, the question usually asked by women was "How can we best help to defend our nation?" I cannot remember a time when the question on so many people's lips was "How can we prevent war?"
There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war. For many years war has been looked upon as almost inevitable in the solution of any question that has arisen between nations, and the nation that was strong enough to do so went about building up its defenses and its power to attack. It felt that it could count on these two things for safety. (20 December 1961)
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VI, The Third Image, p. 159
1986 UPI (Moscow) press release on Soviet reaction to the Strategic Defense Initiative. Quoted in Ellensburg Daily Record, 27 Aug 1986, and elsewhere.
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
Source: Being Peace
“The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.”
On War (1832), Book 3
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 559.
Quoted from S.R. Goel, (1994) Heroic Hindu resistance to Muslim invaders, 636 AD to 1206 AD.
Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders Upto 1206 A.D.