Vera Brittain: Human

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“All that a pacifist can undertake—but it is a very great deal—is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”

Vera Brittain

"What Can We Do In Wartime?", in Forward (Scotland, September 9, 1939)

Love , Life , Hate , Suffering

“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.”

Vera Brittain

The Rebel Passion (1964), Chapter 1

“For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.”

Vera Brittain book Testament of Youth

Source: Testament of Youth (1933), Chapter 11

Marriage , Children , Communication , Business