Bertrand Russell Quotes

Bertrand Russell Quotes 366
When the War ( = First World 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. ... 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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Even if one knows that one's own opposition to the war will have little effect, the fact remains that by speaking out, one at least “was not an accomplice to the crimes committed by all the belligerents.” Thus, it is not entirely futile. 　Einstein also says, "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
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