Furthermore, during war, we ask people to go out and deliberately injure their fellows. That is the way society is destroyed. Whenever you go out to pull things to pieces, whenever you go out to injure anybody, you are going out to destroy society. Society can never be built up unless you go out to help your neighbors. People must work together if they are going to get anywhere.
War teaches people to go out and destroy other people and to destroy other people's property.
And when Sherman said that war was hell, I believe that he meant, or at least to me that means, that war creates a hell inside of a man who goes to war. He is going to work himself up into a passion of hatred against somebody else, and that is hell. The destruction of life and property is incidental. The destructive forces that puts into a man's soul are fundamental. That is why I am opposed to all wars, just as I am opposed to all violence.