... shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them.... The Advocate of Peace - Էջ 2091839Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Thomas Carlyle - 1984 - 548 էջ
...Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning...to make these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still as of old, "what devilry soever Kings... | |
| Roland N. Stromberg - 224 էջ
...their lives in quarrels that concern only princes. "Their governors had fallen out," Carlyle explained, "and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." Count Tolstoy was even more demagogic: "Those who devise and prepare for these plunders and murders,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 2000 - 796 էջ
...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still as of old, "what devilry soever Kings do, is the Greeks must pay the piper!" — In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is true, the final... | |
| Emma Goldman, Candace Falk - 2003 - 688 էջ
...there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." ' In these few pithy words of Carlyle, lies the whole secret of War and Militarism. Only a short while... | |
| Alexander Berkman - 2003 - 274 էջ
...there was even, unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! Their governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." It is not for your country that you fight when you go to war. It's for your governors, your rulers,... | |
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