Olaf Stapledon Quote

Under the pressure of a war to the death, all that was best, all that was most human and gentle on each side was crushed out by military necessity. On the one side, the passion for a unified world, where every individual should live a free and full life in service of the world community, was overcome by the passion to punish spies, traitors, and heretics. On the other, vague and sadly misguided yearnings for a nobler, less materialistic life were cleverly transformed by the reactionary leaders into vindictiveness against the revolutionaries.

Chapter V: Worlds Innumerable; 3. Nautiloids (p. 69) - Star Maker (1937)

Under the pressure of a war to the death, all that was best, all that was most human and gentle on each side was crushed out by military necessity....

Under the pressure of a war to the death, all that was best, all that was most human and gentle on each side was crushed out by military necessity....

Under the pressure of a war to the death, all that was best, all that was most human and gentle on each side was crushed out by military necessity....

Under the pressure of a war to the death, all that was best, all that was most human and gentle on each side was crushed out by military necessity....