And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country’s pride.
Bertrand Russell, in “The First War,” eighth chapter of The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967), p. 265.
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