"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."

War, Being, Destruction

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"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."

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"Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel."

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