The Therapy Sessions
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Mill's wisdom
Great quote from The Discerning Texan:
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill
This would seem to me to describe much of Continental Europe at this point.