They said it

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse 
military service. Albert Einstein


They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die 
for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor 
fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good 
reason. Ernest Hemmingway


At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human 
stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers 
of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing 
zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. Aldous Huxley


O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody 
shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields 
with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the 
thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing 
in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane 
of fire. Mark Twain


The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or 
values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying 
organised violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-
Westerners never do. Samuel P. Huntington