War protest can be effective on any scale.
Photoset protesting ongoing war in Ukraine, photos were taken in St. Petersburg, Russia, near Memorial to Victims of Political Repressions.
I was not the only one to find this place appropriate to express my support for peace, flowers in paper packaging in colors of Ukrainian and Belarus flags were left by someone before me.
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…надеюсь, что, преодолев опасности, достигнув великого развития во всех областях жизни, человечество сумеет сохранить человеческое в человеке.
Андрей Сахаров
Я могу повторить то, что сказал раньше: в правде нет страха.
Правда и страх не совместимы.
Дмитрий Лихачёв
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Who really knew what evil lurked in the heart of men?
ME.
Who knew what sane men were capable of?
STILL ME, I’M AFRAID.
Vimes glanced at the door of the last room. No, he wasn’t going in there again. No wonder it stank here.
YOU CAN’T HEAR ME, CAN YOU? OH. I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT, said Death, and waited.
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
"Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam.
"Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?"
"'cos they torture people."
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch