#2,875

The greater part of an age’s political ideas depends on the state of military technology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 460

#2,662

A greater capacity for killing is the criterion of “progress” between two peoples or two epochs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#1,472

That patriotism which is not a carnal adhesion to specific landscapes, is rhetoric designed by semi-educated men to spur the illiterate on towards the slaughterhouse.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 248

#1,430

The fervor with which the Marxist invokes the future society would be moving if the rites of invocation were less bloody.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 242

#724

Modern conflicts originate less in the intention to conquer the enemy than in the desire to suppress conflict.
Booty, ideology, or adventure has motivated fewer wars in our time than the idyllic dream of peace.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 132