Herbert Butterfield - Quote

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"The greatest menace to our civilization is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins of the other give it pretext for still deeper hatred." - Christianity, Diplomacy and War (1952).

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