Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.

"Betrayals", p. 1; first published in Blue Motel (1994) - Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)