I Wish I’d Said That.

Dr. Boli’s Occasional Journal of Quotations.

The Most Barbarous Cost of War.

First and foremost, war is war and military organization is, and must be, tyranny. This is, perhaps, the greatest and most barbarous cost of war and the most pressing reason for its abolition from civilization.

——W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, “An Essay Toward a History of the Black Man in the Great War.”