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Anne Llewellyn Barstow

  • Power can be seen as power with rather than power over, and it can be used for competence and co-operation, rather than dominance and control.

    • Anne Llewellyn Barstow,
    • in Transformations of Myth Through Time: An Anthology of Readings ()
  • In WWI, the ratio of military personnel killed to civilians was 8:1. In WWII, it was 1:1. In the many smaller wars since 1945, the ratio has been 1:8. This means that the victims of wars have changed: the great majority being civilian; they are mainly women, children, and the elderly.

Anne Llewellyn Barstow, U.S. writer, educator, theologian, activist

(1929)