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The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Immanuel Kant
War, Evil People, Tyranny

Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

Immanuel Kant
War, Men, Order
Immanuel Kant (2007). “Perpetual Peace”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

Immanuel Kant
Peace, War, Men

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

Immanuel Kant
War, Prudence, Approach

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant
Peace, War, Evil
Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

Immanuel Kant
War, Impossible, Kind

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