Desiderius Erasmus, "Dulce Bellum Inexpertis" in Adages (1515)
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If there is any human activity which should be approached with caution, or rather which should be avoided by all possible means, resisted and shunned, that activity is war, for there is nothing more wicked, more disastrous, more widely destructive, more persistently ingrained, more hateful, more unworthy in every respect of a man, not to say a Christian.

— Desiderius Erasmus on Pacifism

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Desiderius Erasmus

About Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (27 October 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch philosopher, humanist and theologian.