Man has certain aggressive activities and especially where his greatest ideological power expansions abut on the instinct of total destruction.
War between the powerful political energies is no longer possible without self-destruction. Small wars remain protected from this insight because they are born only of anxiety.
Men have not understood that the peace activities of routine democracy are as murderous and self-destructive. One should know that nobody will come out of it undestroyed, if one collectively exploits, on the basis of mutual compromises, in an unchivalrous manner, the nature of the objects of the world and oneself, including one’s feelings.