Nicholas Murray Butler - The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old internationa

The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow.

- Nicholas Murray Butler

source: Nicholas Murray Butler (1917). “A World in Ferment: Interpretations of the War for a New World”, New York : Scribner

topic: War, Order, Suffering, Old World, One World Government, World Order, Volcanic Eruptions, New World