Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made, not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of g…

We seem to assume that if only someone could find the cure for our disease, some new plan, we should at once see that it was the cure and apply it. We ask for …

It is, of course, merely a truism to say that war, like other social or political evils, is the outcome of the bad management of human society, which is, in it…

I never felt it was inevitable that we had to go to war.

'How to Save Bosnia,' The World and I, July 1994, by Michael Johns.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of …