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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Aldous Huxley

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Die schockierendste Tatsache in Bezug auf den Krieg ist, dass seine Opfer und seine Instrumente individuelle Menschen sind und dass diese einzelnen Wesen durch die ungeheuren Konventionen der Politik dazu verurteilt werden, zu ermorden oder in Streitereien ermordet zu werden, die nicht ihre eigenen sind.

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