“Man, with all his intellect and sagacity, has chiefly succeeded in marring the very coating of the earth with the bleached corpuscles of his own sons.”
Category: Blast
“The fundamental cause of all wars is undoubtedly to be found in the military organization of society. The formation of an army is always prompted by the intention of an aggressive or a defensive war.”
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Why War? – The Blast (1916)
“The patriotic aberration that, though it is murder to kill when you are dressed in citizen’s clothes, it is heroic and glorious to slaughter wholesale when you put on a soldier’s uniform.”
“The Mexican people are learning through long and cruel experience that freedom is never handed down from those on the higher steps of the social ladder.”
