291 ratings (3.93 avg)
0 reviews

Aïda Jaïdane

Add friend

Aïda’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (91)

currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (298)

indispensables‎ (27)

Stats | More…

Aïda is Currently Reading

Aïda Jaïdane is currently reading

Las armas secretas

by Julio Cortázar

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jun 21, 2017 03:26AM

“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.”
― James Connolly

tags: aggression, civilized, death, destruction, elite, humanity, hypocrisy, james-connolly, jingoism, madness, morality, reality, ruling-class, truth, war, ww1

44 likes

“Il y a tant de vieux arbres!”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos

tags: childhood

0 likes

“Je me dresserai,
Opprimé, brisé, terrassé,
Avec mon épée en bois
Contre les armées d’acier.
Sur mon épée de bois,
Aux enfants désolés, aux mères éplorées,
J’apporterai la liberté.
Sur mon cheval de bois
J’envahirai la Bourgogne
L’Angleterre et la Pologne,
Avec mon épée en bois.
A travers les obscures nations
Qui dans leurs chaînes aboient
Je combattrai le dragon
Avec mon épée en bois.
Porté par les larmes
Les sanglots et les voix,
Je volerai dans les flammes
Avec mon épée en bois.”
― Ljubomir Simović, Putujuće pozorište Šopalović

0 likes