"How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood."
Bertha von Suttner was an Austrian novelist and pacifist who became the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. Her antiwar work, including Lay Down Your Arms, influenced the early international peace movement.