War Always Takes You Backwards — Pope Francis

What is the use of solemnly committing ourselves all together, on an international level, in campaigns against poverty, against hunger, against the degradation of the planet, if we then fall back into the old vice of war, into the old strategy of the power of armaments, which takes everything and everyone backward? A war always takes you backward, always. We walk backward. — Against War: Building a Culture of Peace, p.13