Children Quote by A.J. Beirens

“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one. I had…

— Tammy Pemper

“I was surprised that peacekeeping involved killing so many people, but it is what it is.”

— Craig Alanson

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

— Karl Kraus

“On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for…

— George Orwell

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

— John Conyers

Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

— Halima Aden

“How do we pick and choose where to get involved? Canada and other peacekeeping nations have become accustomed to acting if, and only if,…

— Romeo Dallaire

Unlike children in other countries, the Eskimos played no game of war. They played with imaginary rifles and harpoons, but these were never directed…

— Marie Herbert

Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except…

— Dan Wakefield

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a…

— Anonymous

Earth the scene presenting the same play for millennia: War and peace.

— Mariana Fulger

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village;…

— Thomas Carlyle