A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Topic:

War,

Author:

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

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

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