“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
