Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful

War to the death against depravity - depravity is Christianity

The man who has renounced war has renounced a grand life.