"SOME priggish little clerk will say, 'I have
reason to congratulate myself that I am a civilized person, and not so
bloodthirsty as the Mad Mullah.' Somebody ought to say to him, 'A really
good man would be less bloodthirsty than the Mullah. But you are less
bloodthirsty, not because you are more of a good man, but because you
are a great deal less of a man. You are not bloodthirsty, not because
you would spare your enemy, but because you would run away from him.'"
~G.K. Chesterton: All Things Considered.
