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Rebecca West: "Apakah saya harus turun ke pasar, dipersenjatai dengan...

"Apakah saya harus turun ke pasar, dipersenjatai dengan kekuatan sihir, dan mengambil seorang petani di pundak dan berbisik kepadanya, "Dalam hidup Anda, apakah Anda tahu kedamaian?" menunggu jawabannya, goyangkan pundaknya dan ubah dia menjadi ayahnya, dan ajukan pertanyaan yang sama padanya, dan ubah dia pada gilirannya menjadi ayahnya, aku tidak akan pernah mendengar kata 'Ya,' jika aku membawa pertanyaanku tentang orang mati kembali selama seribu tahun. Saya akan selalu mendengar, 'Tidak, ada ketakutan, ada musuh kita tanpa, penguasa kita di dalam, ada penjara, ada siksaan, ada kematian yang kejam."

--- Rebecca West

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.