Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.

“In other words, let us quit fighting for a few weeks or months, and have a conference. If nothing happens, we can go on fighting again with renewed zest. Speaking as an Irishman, I might go further and suggest talking and fighting at the same time — an ideal state of affairs!” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “This may be a little difficult, as we have all forgotten what those points were; but at least we can try to come to some arrangement as to what is best to be done.”
  2. “Whether we want to fight Germany or to come to an amicable understanding with her does not matter. In either case, we are handicapping ourselves by hating her. We are failing to see her point of view.”
  3. "They must argue that we who will not even discuss the question of peace can be none other than Huns. (Now I've said it!)"
  4. “It is evident from these shining examples that our humanitarianism, like all other forms of thought, is strictly limited by time and space.”
  5. “In other words, let us quit fighting for a few weeks or months, and have a conference. If nothing happens, we can go on fighting again with renewed zest. Speaking as an Irishman, I might go further and suggest talking and fighting at the same time — an ideal state of affairs!”