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Looks like before, in 1931. He follows with "My opinion of the human race is high enough that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the peoples not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press" ... Why would there ever be peace when we celebrate war and warriors, on the highest pedestals?

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> Why would there ever be peace when we celebrate war and warriors, on the highest pedestals?

This has been well understood for 340 year, but let's take it one more time:

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

- Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents, 1770

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -Gandhi

The wars that are generally found on pedestals are not wars of revenge, but of defence.

Non-violence works best when you are a large majority against a small, civil minority, which was the case in India, as well as for the civil right movements Ghandi inspired. Ask Chamberlain how well it worked against a large, angry, un-civil nation.

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