“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war – militiae – was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace – domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation.”

“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war – militiae – was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace – domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel