Originally Posted by jwb

it's probably safe to say most of us would've been nazis if we happened to be born in that time and place

Everyone likes to think they'd have been in the resistance. It took a lot of balls to actually do that.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.