We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.

G.k. Chesterton
About This Quote

We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting. In many ways, war is a lot like sports. In sports, you get to throw your body around and carry stuff to the goal. In war, you get to throw people around and carry stuff to the goal.

You get to be aggressive and violent. You get to do things that a pacifist wouldn’t want to do, but a lot of people do it anyway.

Source: Heretics

Some Similar Quotes
  1. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Unknown
  2. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about. - Jalaluddin Rumi
  3. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix
  4. When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without... - Fred Rogers
  5. If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. - John Lennon
More Quotes By G.k. Chesterton
  1. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
  2. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
  3. Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
  4. The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
  5. I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in...
Related Topics