Socrates: Would this habit of eating animals not require that we slaughter animals that we knew as individuals, and in whose eyes we could gaze and see ourselves reflected, only a few hours before our meal? Glaucon: This habit would require that of us. Socrates: Wouldn't this [knowledge of our role in turning a being into a thing] hinder us in achieving happiness? Glaucon: It could so hinder us in our quest for happiness. Socrates: And, if we pursue this way of living, will we not have need to visit the doctor more often? Glaucon: We would have such need. Socrates: If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbor follows a similar path, will we not have need to go to war against our neighbor to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbor will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason? Glaucon: We would be so compelled. Socrates: Would not these facts prevent us from achieving happiness, and therefore the conditions necessary to the building of a just society, if we pursue a desire to eat animals? Glaucon: Yes, they would so prevent us.
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The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don
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1 Peter 2:11:
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
(NIV)
Beloved, I implore you as aliens and strangers and exiles [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges (the evil desires, the passions of the flesh, your lower nature) that wage war against the soul.
(AMP)
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
(KJV)
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.... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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Revelation 12:17:
Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring – those who keep God's commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
(NIV)
So then the dragon was furious (enraged) at the woman, and he went away to wage war on the remainder of her descendants--[on those] who obey God's commandments and who have the testimony of Jesus Christ [and adhere to it and bear witness to Him].
(AMP)
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
(KJV)
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
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When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
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2 Corinthians 10:3:
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
(NIV)
For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons.
(AMP)
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(KJV)
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