[Obdurately] I refuse to hear anything but my orders. I care not what wheels roll, or noises stir.
Second Sentry
Why does God hurl the nations against one another? There is room for all beneath the skies. There is still plenty of land unploughed; many forests still await the axe. Yet men turn their ploughshares into swords, and hew living flesh with their axes. I cannot understand, I cannot understand.
First Sentry
It has always been so.
Second Sentry
But must it always be so? Why does God wish the nations to fight?
First Sentry
The nations want war for its own sake.
Second Sentry