" The utility of moral and political philosophy is to be estimated, not so much by the commodities we have be knowing these sciences, as by the calamities we receive by not knowing them. Now all such calamities as may be avoided by human industry arise from war, but chiefly from civil war, for from this proceed slaughter, solitude, and the want of all things. "

― Thomas Hobbes , The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)