Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

To kill in an illegal and immoral war/occupation is not heroic, nor is it admirable or worthy of respect. Meaningless talk of heroism perpetuates the myth of honor and glory, masks the crimes of aggression and encourages and motivates others to become cannon fodder, murderers, and victims of corporate sponsored militarism and greed.

The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation.