Lewis Mumford War Quotations

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing...

War is a specific product of civilization.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.