Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Quotes From the Honest Guru: The Reason For Wars


Optimism yields wars.
No war would have started, had both sides expected defeat.

3 comments:

John M said...

I never thought about it this way but you are absolutely right.

Unknown said...

Interesting thought, which makes me think of the onset of World War I, when millions of soldiers went to war laughing, thinking they'd be home by Christmas...
But what about wars where one side is the aggressor? I mean, Poland probably wasn't optimistic when Hitler invaded, right?

Ran Fuchs said...

@Arend van Nerel. Unfortunately, One side optimism is enough