NickThe Good Soldier Švejk by #JaroslavHašek
“Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination…
“Everywhere on these occasions they used to march about with a crucified Christ figure, as if to say: "They're only cutting your head off, they're only hanging you, strangling you, putting fifteen thousand volts into you, but think what that chap there had to go through.'”
