“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine”
they are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine — they are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior, jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.
Letter (5 May 1855), published in Florence Nightingale : An Introduction to Her Life and Family (2001), edited by Lynn McDonald, p. 141
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