Churchill on war as the human default
Churchill's 1924 claim that war, not peace, is the normal state of the human race — a Hobbesian reading of history.
Refs: Thomas Hobbes The state
Excerpt
The story of the human race is War. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.
Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings — nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke?
— Winston Churchill, "Shall We All Commit Suicide?" (1924)
