C. S. Lewis quote: I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that ...

I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men and from a dash of purely fashionable and literary communism.

~ C. S. Lewis ~

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