Cease Quote by John Owen

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Killing is the payoff of war.

— Morley Safer

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around…

— Sylvia Earle

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider…

— Ayn Rand

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

— Tacitus

Killing is killing whether done for duty, profit or fun.

— Richard Ramirez

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with…

— Ambrose Bierce