„Germany is already well on her way to become, and must become incomparably, the most heavily armed nation in the world and the nation most completely ready for war. There is the dominant factor; there is the factor which dwarfs all others, the factor which we find affecting the movements of politics and diplomacy in every country throughout Europe…we cannot have any anxieties comparable to the anxiety caused by German re-armament. The House will pardon me if I continue to press that anxiety upon it.“

— Winston S. Churchill

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„Anxiety occurs because of a threat to the values a person identifies with his existence as a self … most anxiety comes from a threat to social, emotional and moral values the person identifies with himself. And here we find that a main source of anxiety, particularly in the younger generation, is that they do not have viable values available in the culture on the basis of which they can relate to their world. The anxiety which is inescapable in an age in which values are so radically in transition is a central cause of apathy … such prolonged anxiety tends to develop into lack of feeling and the experience of depersonalization.“
— Rollo May
„Up to now, the world of politics doesn’t know that. That’s why all nations are dependent on armaments, why we have the arms race.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„When it comes down to it, the root cause of war is always population pressure no matter what other factors enter in.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.“
— Carl von Clausewitz
„My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.“
— Virginia Woolf