Where could you find a light to guide the world? - Gabrielle Roy

Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...

"Don’t preach," said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.

We're saying that Germany wants to destroy us. And right now in Germany a whole lot of good quiet people like us, no worse than we are, they're getting whipped into a frenzy by the same story. They're being told the others are penning them into a country that's too small, and don't want to let them live. On one side or the other somebody's being sold a bill of goods. Maybe the Germans are wrong. We don't know. All I know is, I don't want to go killing some guy that never did me any harm, and who hasn't the choice but to do what he's told. I've got nothing against that poor guy. Why should I go and stick a bayonet into him? He wants to live, just like I do. He doesn't want to die.