3 David Mitchell Quotes on War

David Mitchell quotes on war

11. 'Another war is always coming: They are never properly extinguished. What sparks war? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will: The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall be.' ?(p.462)

12. 'Diplomacy: it mops up war's spillages; legitimises its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.' ? (p.462)

13. 'Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation, and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.' ?