When the War was over, I saw that all I had done had been totally useless except to myself. I had not saved a single life or shortened the War by a minute. I had not succeeded in doing anything to diminish the bitterness which caused the Treaty of Versailles. But at any late I had not been an accomplice in the crime of all the belligerent nations, and for myself I had acquired a new philosophy and a new youth.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 1:The First War, 1968
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