Adults Quote by Karl Marlantes

“War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.”

— Karl Marlantes

War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other…

— Cindy Sheehan

Every war is a war against children.

— Eglantyne Jebb

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

— Ru Freeman

When adults wage war, children perish.

— Elie Wiesel

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

— Philip Kearny

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

— Bertrand Russell

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ...…

— Alice Walker

All wars are waged against children

— Eglantyne Jebb

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

— Jeff Shaara

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

— Henry Giroux