Dana KramerRollsWar...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.
About This Quote
In the book "A Call to Conscience," by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, he expresses his view of war and conflict. He says that war is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing. The Archbishop believes that war is a necessary evil, a painful way for a nation to come to a just resolution in a conflict.
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