Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
224
AUTHOR:
Herbert Butterfield (1900–79)
QUOTATION:
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness—each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked—each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
ATTRIBUTION:
HERBERT BUTTERFIELD, Christianity, Diplomacy and War, p. 43 (1953).
