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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition. — Chief Joseph

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers. — Erri De Luca

War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young — Wilbur Smith

Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just. — Meister Eckhart

A killing was exactly what he didn't want to make because to make a killing you had to kill, and he lacked the killer instinct. — Margaret Atwood

You were trying to find a way to get rid of yourself,
but you were still left with your mouth. — Kris Kidd

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been. — George Carlin

There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age. — Elizabeth Berg

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. — Oscar Wilde

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. — George S. McGovern

War is young men dying and old men talking — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad. — Andre Dubus

Become who you are by learning who you are. — Robert Greene

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. — Northrop Frye

Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight — Renee Ahdieh

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. — Jane Roberts

Old men make wars that young men may die. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind. — David R. Brower

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people. — Phyllis Smith

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. — Theodore Roosevelt

Old men make war, young men fight and die — Winston Churchill

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals. — Sid Waddell

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. — Edward Abbey

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell! — William Tecumseh Sherman

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal. — Alephonsion Deng

The old men send the young to die in war,
But if the roles were reversed, what then the score? — Alan Cook

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. — Kurt Vonnegut

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime. — Mahatma Gandhi

When the old men fight, the young people die. — Anne Fortier

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who ... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war. — Ray McGovern

I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired. — Michael Marshall Smith

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war. — Len Deighton

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war. — Erica Jong