"Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance."

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What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

— Helen Keller