Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or ...bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, ...which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are all of us made by war, twisted and warped by war, but we seem to forget it. A war does not end with the Armistice. In 1919,... all over a Europe filled with graves, hung miasmas and miseries, and over the whole world too, because of the flu and its nearly thirty million deaths. I used to joke that it was the war that had give birth to me, as a defence when weary with the talk about the war that went on--and on--and on. But it was no joke. I used to feel there was something like a dark grey cloud, like poison gas, over my early childhood. Later I found people who had the same experience. Perhaps it was from that war that I first felt the struggling panicky need to escape, with a nervous aversion to where I have just stood, as if something there might blow up or drag me down by the heel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly ...after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »