 The Galaxy of Quotes
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind. Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. Death is softer by far than tyranny. There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. Behold Galvatron. And, these shall be your minions: Scourge, the tracker, and his huntsmen, the Sweeps; Cyclonus, the warrior, and his armada.
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