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A people at war have become in the most literal sense obedient, respectful, trustful children again, full of that naïve faith in the all-wisdom and all-power of the adult who takes care of them, imposes his mild but necessary rule upon them and in whom they lose their responsibility and anxieties.
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For the soldier there is no peace and for the civilian there is no safety...
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It will no longer be possible to have an army, if it continues to vote...
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...the guilt of war is always confined to a few persons and that the many are their friends.
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"War is hell," men say, and continue to accept it as inevitable. But if war is hell, who but men themselves are the fiends that people it?
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But who compose these armies that keep the people in this state of slavery? Who are these soldiers that will fire at peasants who take the land, or at strikers who will not disperse, or at smugglers who bring in goods without paying taxes? Who put in prison and guard there those who refuse to pay taxes? The soldiers are these same peasants who are deprived of land, these same strikers who want better wages, these same taxpayers who want to be rid of these taxes.
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Who are the people? In Germany as well as in Great Britain the people are not the Upper-Ten, are not the princes, generals and other gold-braided officers, the mighty landlords, the powerful directors and share-holders of military and naval arsenals, the “kings” of gun, armor-plate, smokeless powder and airplane production. The people are not the small number of privileged ones, who pocket enormous profits, thanks to the fantastic expenditure on military and naval armaments, who fish guineas out of the blood-streams on the battlefields, and pluck their laurels from the land fertilized by rotting corpses.
Chronology :
April 09, 2020 : The Masses -- Added.
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