“A generation that ceases to believe in peace no longer believes in political solutions. It will, therefore, not strive for peace and will devote its strength and thoughts to the continuation of warfare, considering this the only form of existence open to it.
“A generation that ceases to believe in peace as a morally desirable aim, as its ideal, no longer seeing it as the theoretical and practical object to be attained and to which the military struggle should be directed, must become maimed in spirit. Its scale of values will become distorted and what is worse — such a generation may let the opportunity for peace slip by when the historical situation could make possible its realization.”
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