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Bertrand Russell
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With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.
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Bertrand Russell
, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1950
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