Lessons from World War I

Do these quotations seem relevant?

"First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost."

Austrian satirist Karl Kraus in Die Fackel, 1917

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide."

French soldier Henri Barbusse in his novel Le Feu, 1915

"...and all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride..."

British philosopher Bertrand Russell, 1914