Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked [:] and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Failure to stop war makes bystanders complicit in the loss.
- In plain terms
- Not stopping war makes you partly guilty.
- What can you take from it?
- Avoid war by acting to prevent it.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are we responsible for wars we don't stop?
- How do we prevent conflict?
Another view
Prevention is not always possible.
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