О, я спешить не стану; но те, кто начал криком: "Долой Мазарини!", в конце концов будут кричать "долой" всем этим людям, каждо- му по очереди...
-- Дорогие солдаты,-- ораторствовал фельдкурат Ибл,-- представьте себе: сейчас сорок восьмой год и только что победоносно окончилась битва у Кустоццы...
Он стал хозяином скалы и деревьев. У него появилась еще одна рука, да что я говорю... сотня рук! Где вы нашли Его. Ка самодовольно усмехнулся: - Я не нашел Его...
... Wars, for thousands of years, have always been aggravated on both sides by crimes and injustices. In hopes that a just reason might prevail, in order to make sense of war and to punish evil passions and evil deeds, Russia proposed The Hague Convention of 1899. Yet no sooner did the first war crimes trial take place -- the Nazis at Nuremberg -- than we saw, elevated high upon the judges' bench, the unblemished administrators of a justice system that during those same years handed over to torture, execution and untimely death tens of millions of innocent lives in its own country. And if we continue to differentiate between the always inevitable deaths of soldiers at war and the mass killings of undoubtedly peaceful citizens, then by what name shall we call those who, in a matter of minutes, burnt to death 140,000 civilians at Hiroshimaalone -- justifying the act with the astounding words, "to save the lives of our soldiers"? That President and his entourage were never subjected to trial, and they are remembered as worthy victors. And how shall we name those who, with victory fully in hand, dispatched a two-day wave of fighter bombers to reduce to ashes beautiful Dresden, a civilian city teeming with refugees? The death toll was not far below Hiroshima, and two orders of magnitude greater than at Coventry. The Coventry bombing, however, was condemned in trial, while the Air Marshal who directed the bombing of Dresden was not only spared the brand of "war criminal", but towers over the British capital in a monument, as a national hero. In an age marked by such a flourishing of jurisprudence, we ought to see clearly that a well-considered international law is a law which justly punishes criminals irrespective -- irrespective -- of their side's victory or defeat. No such law has yet been created, found a firm footing, or been universally recognised...
