Source: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Face (1979), Chapter 3 (pp. 17-18)
“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”
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