The State which thinks itself entitled to force its citizens to go to war will never pay proper regard to the value and happiness of their lives in peace. Moreover, by conscription the militarist spirit of aggressiveness is implanted in the whole male population at the most impressionable age. By training for war men come to consider war as unavoidable and even desirable. It is a form of servitude. That nations routinely tolerate it, is just one more proof of its debilitating influence.
Military training is schooling of body and spirit in the art of killing.
Military training is education for war. It is the perpetuation of war spirit. It hinders the development of the desire for peace. Non-Cooperation with military research, military production and arms trade. In our age of electronic warfare and media manipulation, we cannot deny our responsibility to act in time, according to our consciences.