A Quote by Paul Fussell
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
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The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you look at the Cold War, you could argue that a war was bound to happen between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, but it didn't.
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.
People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.
War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.
If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.
I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interaction of personalities and ideas. And so I don't believe war between the U.S. and China is in any way inevitable, and it's well within the province of diplomacy and statecraft to avoid it.
It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.
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