Week 6 - Saying of the Week

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. --John Stewart Mill--

This is such a truism. There are things more important than our own little lives. I have always thought that that John Lennon song "Imagine" was a glimpse into a horrifying future, it must be a terrible place where apathy reigns supreme. In case you can't recall the words to that vapid paean to nothingness:

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try,
No hell below us, above us only sky,
Imagine all the people living for today...
Imagine there's no countries, it isn’t hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for, no religion too,
Imagine all the people living life in peace...Written by: John Lennon

It is hard to “imagine” a more terrible, depressing place than that.