Two sayings that, at this moment, are particularly worth bearing in mind:
It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two. And those who have not swords can still die upon them.
—J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don’t take the sword perish by smelly diseases.
—George Orwell, ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’
May God be with the Christians of Nigeria in their hour of tribulation, and may He confound Boko Haram and all their evil works. And may the dead of Charlie Hebdo find mercy, and the survivors seek truth.
