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In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.