"War is the manifestation to which reality entrusts the task of confronting human beings with the vanity of their certainties and ambitions, with the weight of their fears and not least with their imbecility.
It has this peculiarity: at a certain point it gets out of hand. It turns into an autonomous reality, into a monstrous body with a life of its own, capable of escaping the control of humans and, indeed, determined to punish them for having believed they could control it'.
From Gianluca Grossi's book: Sulla guerra. Perché non riusciamo a non farla. Redea Publishing, Lugano, 2023.