We shall never end wars, Mrs. Barham, by blaming it on ministers and generals or warmongering imperialists or all the other banal bogies. It’s the rest of us who build statues to those generals and name boulevards after those ministers; the rest of us who make heroes of our dead and shrines of our battlefields. We wear our widows’ weeds like nuns and perpetuate war by exalting its sacrifices… [It] may be ministers and generals who blunder us into wars, but the least the rest of us can do is to resist honoring the institution.
— The Americanization of Emily
(Source: laliberty)
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