From War to Peace Quotes

“The answer to the question of why we have war is this: we have war because we have war. War is overdetermined; its supporting norms are self-fueling and robustly redundant. Wars produce the conditions for future wars.”
― Kent D. Shifferd, From War to Peace: A Guide to the Next Hundred Years

“Suspecting the evil behavior of its neighbor, a national security state seeks to protect itself by employing the same amoral or immoral methods, thus proving to its neighbor that it too must adopt such Machiavellian methods. The entire system operates at the lowest possible level. The Soviet Union used spies and executed spies, and the U.S. did the same while each proclaimed the moral high ground to their citizens.”
― Kent D. Shifferd, From War to Peace: A Guide to the Next Hundred Years

“There is much in Judeo-Christian doctrine and history that can be used to support a peace system, but it is so far a minor current. The main stream has adopted the violent, dominator mode of late Palestinian Judaism with its foundation in Old Testament holy war. It is a somber fact of history that in the name of Christ men have murdered and condoned murder, tortured women and children, slaughtered in war, and executed each other without remorse. The Crusaders saw Jesus in terms of their own society, that is, as their feudal lord.”
― Kent D. Shifferd, From War to Peace: A Guide to the Next Hundred Years