The object of mankind is not to live in a perfectly functioning universe, but to live in a tolerable universe, which means one suited to the nature a… - Dorothy Thompson

It does not matter how 'courageous' a writer may be. Courage becomes useless, for a courageous writer who is not published is not a writer at all.

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war—as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

All my life I have been a pacifist. All my life I have hated war and loved peace. I have contributed to peace societies, written for peace, spoken for peace, paraded for peace. But today I seriously question whether our ways of seeking peace are not playing directly into the hands of those who love war and intend to pursue it.