War (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
« Et moi, se dit-il, moi, l’intellect européen, que vais-je devenir ?... Et qu’est-ce que la paix ? La paix est peut-être, l’état de choses dans lequel l’hostilité naturelle des hommes entre eux se manifeste par des créations, au lieu de se traduire par des destructions comme fait la guerre. C’est le temps d’une concurrence créatrice, et de la lutt
... See morePaul Valéry • La crise de L’esprit, Le Bilan de l’Intelligence, Regards sur le monde actuel (French Edition)
For real peace is not the mere absence of war. Real peace is the implausibility of war.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
"The war creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.
Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge an
... See morean often painful and nearly century-long war* evoked a tradition of profound soul-searching among Israelis about how they could best balance the need to fight for their survival and at the same time maintain the moral standards that they believed were critical to becoming the society they sought to be.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
On parle d’une vraie guerre, bien sûr, pas de « frappes chirurgicales » et autres saloperies bonnes pour les Américains qui veulent faire le gendarme chez les autres sans risquer leurs précieux pioupious dans des combats « au sol ». Le goût de la guerre, la vraie, est aussi naturel à l’homme que le goût de la paix, il est idiot de vouloir l’en ampu
... See moreEmmanuel Carrère • Limonov (Fiction) (French Edition)
Lincoln’s goal, in each of these instances, was to balance law against military necessity, in the expectation that the passage of time and the success of his armies would stabilize the equilibria. “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,” he wrote in 1864. “I cannot remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet, I have never understood tha
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