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Quotes from The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future — Gilbert Murray

1866–1957 Australia

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This service of civilization is our true work; the occupation that gives meaning to life. We need peace, inward and outward, because peace leaves us free to attend to it; while war—or, indeed, any violent hatred—interrupts and wrecks and perverts.

The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929)

There ought to be some sanction behind international law, and the League of Nations is there to supply it... The problem is not how to concentrate somewhere sufficient force to quell a peace-breaker—that already exists; it is to produce a general state of mind in which the possessors of force will really use it for maintaining the general peace and not merely for supporting their own interests.

The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gilbert Murray (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.