Pathfinders Quotes

“It was true that war settled nothing permanently, that the seeds of the next war rose from the blood of the last, yet in the choice of the two ways of life, the democratic way, with all its shortcomings, was so immeasurably nobler in ideal – and in past record – that it was worth trying to preserve.”
― Cecil Lewis, Pathfinders

“This was Liberty! This was Freedom! These beautiful words are the names men give to fond illusions; for they are inevitably bound to their fellow men, to those who depend on them and on whom they depend. Autocracies bind them by rules imposed from above, democracies and fraternities by rules imposed from within.”
― Cecil Lewis, Pathfinders

“The truth was that this persecution was too vast for the mind to grasp. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, all with their lives, their families, their properties, their businesses; all with their hopes and plans, had been brutally ripped out of the fabric of society. The people were innocent. Quite innocent. How could they help their blood? What had they done? No, the imagination gaped at it. The mind froze with horror, turned aside, gave up.”
― Cecil Lewis, Pathfinders