The boredom of pacifism

“No more war; no more distinctions of law, peoples, states, or religions; no criminals or adventurers; no conflicts arising out of superiorities and unlikenesses, no more hate or vengeance, but just unending comfort through all millennia. Even today, when we are still living out the last phases of this trivial optimism, these imbecilities make one shudder, thinking of the appalling boredom - the taedium vitae of the Roman Imperial age - that spreads over the soul in the mere reading of such idylls, of which even a partial actualization in real life could only lead to wholesale murder and suicide.”

Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)
Man and Technics - A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life