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Eredeti: :The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called “good fighting generals” of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life.
„Ettől kezdve a háború eltörlésére való törekvés tűnt számomra, és tűnik számomra ma is, az egyetlen politikai célnak, amely számít.”
Eredeti
Thenceforth, the effort to abolish war seemed to me, and still seems to me, the only political object worth while.
A Great Experiment (1941), p. 189
Kontextus: The truth is, I was never a very good Party man. Probably but for the War of 1914, I should have gone on fairly comfortably as a Conservative official. But those four years burnt into me the insufferable conditions of international relations which made war the acknowledged method — indeed, the only fully authorized method — of settling international disputes. Thenceforth, the effort to abolish war seemed to me, and still seems to me, the only political object worth while.
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood 1
(1864–1958) angol jogász, politikus, Nobel-békedíjas diplom… 1864–1958Hasonló idézetek
„Úgy tűnt, hogy a szerelem hangja hív engem, de rossz számot hívott.”
Népszabadság, 2004. február 9.
2002 - 2004