“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn.”
I think this quote means that war does not necessarily mean conquest. Thoughts and prejudices can be even worse. They can worsen a situation and cause you to act a certain way, or do certain things that you would not normally do. Suspicion can destroy many things in life because, if you suspect something good or bad is occurring, you will never be at peace, simply because you will constantly be trying to figure out what is going on. Prejudices and suspicions can cause racing thoughts and reckless actions. I agree with this quote because if you suspect something is going wrong you grow anxious and worried and destroy yourself with your thoughts. For example, when you think that you lost something important, you worry yourself too much and later on find out you just misplaced it. When you are frightened, you will try to find a way to get out of the situation and look for a scapegoat, but this usually causes a bigger problem. This problem will later affect the “children yet unborn”.
