“The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.”

Source: Testament of Youth (1933), Chapter 10

What Does God Want Us to Do About Russia? (1948)

Boule de Suif (1880)
Context: The same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of man or of Nature are at the mercy of unreasoning, savage force. The earthquake crushing a whole nation under falling roofs; the flood let loose, and engulfing in its swirling depths the corpses of drowned peasants, along with dead oxen and beams torn from shattered houses; or the army, covered with glory, murdering those who defend themselves, making prisoners of the rest, pillaging in the name of the Sword, and giving thanks to God to the thunder of cannon — all these are appalling scourges, which destroy all belief in eternal justice, all that confidence we have been taught to feel in the protection of Heaven and the reason of man.

Jesus Is Magic (2005)

The Sarah Silverman Program

"Clear the Way".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)

It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
Abide as the Self

Source: Minaret