That's the cant of every nation: that all the heroism is on one side and all the brutality on the other.

Take men from anywhere and some of them will be devils.

War gives them their opportunity, brings out the beast.

Can you wonder at it?
You teach a man to plunge a bayonet into the writhing flesh of a fellow human being, and twist it round and round and jamb it further in, while the blood is spurting from him like a fountain.

What are you making of him but a beast?
A man's got to be a beast before he can bring himself to do it.