So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos