ASTONISHING: 500 years ago a simple statement spelled out the absurdity of war. In April, we remember the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston march: our “Thoughts” this month will concentrate on aspects of peace.
“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and writer, 1623-1662
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Thought for today
The Thames Today