The rest is vanity; the rest is crime." It is perhaps the most tragic wrong in that century's history that these words were written to justify an effort of which they supply an irrefutable condemnation.
Laski highlights the tragic irony of justifying violence with words that ultimately condemn it, reflecting on moral responsibility in political discourse.
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