Age Quote by Garry Trudeau

War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.

— Vikrant Parsai

For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an…

— Forest Whitaker

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

— Jeff Shaara

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

— Erica Jong

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the…

— Walter Dean Myers

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

— Phil Ochs

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means…

— Mary Gauthier

Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many civilians to…

— Steve Stivers

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and…

— Richard Louv

I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then…

— Suzanne Collins

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

— Gertrude Stein