Areas Quote by David R. Brower

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

— Erica Jong

“I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects of the…

— W.G. Sebald

The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.

— Greg Child

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the…

— Edward Abbey

War is about dead people.

— Scott Ritter

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather,…

— Alan Moore

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

War is much too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

— Georges Clemenceau

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

— Herodotus

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon…

— Xenophon

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to…

— Erich Maria Remarque

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

— William Tecumseh Sherman