„In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.“

— Camille Paglia

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„Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.“
— Joseph Campbell
„He who accepts the class struggle cannot fail to accept civil wars, which in every class society are the natural, and under certain conditions inevitable, continuation, development and intensification of the class struggle… To repudiate civil war, or to forget about it, is to fall into extreme opportunism and renounce the socialist revolution.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„Here and everywhere is the struggle for existence, life inextricably enmeshed with war. All life living at the expense of life, every organism eating other organisms forever.“
— Will Durant
„The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.“
— Albert Einstein
„The first task of the doctor is… political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated…“
— Michel Foucault
„The civil war which was started by the Cadet-Kaledin counter-revolutionary revolt against the Soviet authorities, against the workers’ and peasants’ government, has finally brought the class struggle to a head and has destroyed every chance of setting in a formally democratic way the very acute problems with which history has confronted the peoples of Russia, and in the first place her working class and peasants.“
— Vladimir Lenin