We're accustomed to the older generation looking down on the younger and telling them that they know nothing of the world. But things are rather out of kilter now, aren't they? It is your generation who understands the inhumanity of man, not ours. It's boys like you who have to live with what you have seen and what you have done. You've become the generation of response. While your elders can only look in your direction and wonder.
John BoyneMots clés war
Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!
Augustus Taber MurrayMots clés war violence homer wrath valor patroclus
We are causing war and destruction among ourselves for all the wrong reasons.
Shannon A. ThompsonMots clés war
We couldn’t change anything, and in times of war, people become helpless and vulnerable.
Shannon A. ThompsonMots clés war change vulnerability helpless
Sometimes battles are unavoidable.
Shannon A. ThompsonMots clés war fighting battles
War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.
Shannon A. ThompsonUntil they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.
Shannon A. ThompsonMots clés war hate discrimination
Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive.
Shannon A. ThompsonMots clés war survival discrimination
I want to go to war," Eddie Dean said calmly.
"You don't know what you're talking about," Roland said, "but you're going to find out."
Eddie nodded. They went to their war.
Mots clés war
So, then...” Petra interjected, caught up for the moment in the story, “nobody knows who was right?
“Who was right?” Growland repeated slowly. “How do you mean?”
“In the war.” As she tried to articulate her question, she became less sure of it. “You don't know which side was... right?”
“Cub,” the big bear explained patiently, “nobody has ever gone to war believing their cause to be wrong!”
“Well, sure, I get that. But afterwards... don't people usually... figure out... who was really right?” she finished lamely.
“What people?”
“I don't know!” Petra said, flinging her arms wide. “Historians, maybe?”
Jumphrey snorted and removed his pipe from between his teeth. “Historians are people, and people have opinions and sympathies. I think if you pay attention, you'll find that histories usually demonstrate that the winning side was in the right all along; or else, occasionally, they demonstrate that those who won are despots and tyrants who deserved to be fought against, and still should be. You see? Everyone has a perspective. If you convened a representative post-war council to discuss what started the conflict and who ought to have given way to whom, a new war would break out from their arguments.”
Petra felt her spirits slump a little. “But then... how–”
“As everyone has always done,” the rabbit answered. “You pray that war does not come. But if it does come, you fight in accordance with your own convictions, or to defend the home or people you love; or you take a vow of pacifism, and follow your conscience some other way, if you are allowed. Whatever the political justification for war is said to be, armies are invariably made up of ordinary people fighting for the most basic of ideas, the simplest of reasons. 'Sides' are largely determined by the happenstance of birth, nothing more.”
“That's... tragic,” Petra said, realizing a truth she'd heard before but never really processed.
Jumphrey shrugged, and said simply, “All war is.
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