But it's fair to say that the war's [WWI] dialectic forced those who were more or less alive to go to their death, and gave those who were more or less dead the right to live. And if the war managed only to separate the living from the dead, then the new regime, arriving in its wake, would sooner or later pit them against each other as enemies.
About This Quote
About Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Autobiography of a Corpse
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Autobiography of a Corpse.
Themes
- War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war