Scilla Elworthy Quotes

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

Scilla Elworthy

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• If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

  

  Scilla Elworthy
  • People
  • War
  • Kind