• Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.

  Source: The Causes of World War Three (1960)

  C. Wright Mills
  American sociologist 1916-1962
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. inevitability
2. impersonal
3. principle
4. problems
5. create
6. order

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Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems. by : C. Wright Mills

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