| Bellicism is morally neutral and applicable only to the period before the offence or defence distinction came to be widely recognized. |
| It is important at once to emphasize the difference between bellicism and the modern theory which it superficially resembles, and that is militarism. |
| In short, pacifism in times of war is as unpolitical as bellicism in times of peace. |
| With one honourable exception, every pedagogue who taught or tutored me for long enough to influence my views was steeped in bellicism. |
| Only by meeting these two central problems could, the two most deadly diseases infecting the 17- 18th century states system, bellicism and imperialism, be brought into remission and kept there. |
| The zero-sum model of world trade which inspired its economic protectionism was derived from the zero-sum model of international politics which was inherent in its bellicism. |
