Humans had a genius for devising instruments of death. Their lives were so short and they seemed to value them so little, sending waves of men to clash in battlefields, then weighing victory by the piled corpses. And if they held their own lives so worthless, the lives of everything else were as fruit to pluck from trees. Laini Taylor
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The quote above was written by H.G. Wells, a prolific English writer. He was speaking about the way that the lives of humans were valued by those who lived in that era of history. That era included the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s.

During those years, human life was not valued as highly as it is today. In those days, people were willing to send waves of men to clash in battlefields and then decide victory by the piled corpses. Today, we know better and we do not need to send waves of men to clash on battlefields and afterwards decide victory by the piled corpses.

Today we can barely afford to send one wave of men to clash on battlefields and afterwards decide victory by the piled corpses for they will surely be lost in a sea of bodies.

Source: Blackbringer

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