If we are ever going to have peace again, we will have to hate war for some better reason than that we fear to lose our houses, or our refrigerators, or our cars, or our legs, or our lives. If we are ever to get peace, we have got to desire something more than reefers and anesthetics; but that is all we seem to want: anything to avoid pain.
— Thomas Merton, A Year With Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton, Jonathan Mantaldo, editor