“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”– Jean-Jacques Rousseau Related Quotes “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”– George Washington “The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”– Aldous Huxley “Morality is contraband in war.”– Mahatma Gandhi