“Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.”– Elizabeth Bowen Related Quotes “Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.”– Pope John Paul II “There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.”– George McGovern “Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.”– Joseph A. Schumpeter