"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
Sir Edward Grey, 3 August 1914
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“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
Sir Edward Grey, 3 August 1914