Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.