Dirty work Quote by Karl Marlantes

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

— Karl Marlantes

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

“War is young men dying and old men talking”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.”

— Stefan Molyneux

“War is always a failure of humanity. It is a collective failure of our fundamental values.”

— Alexander Stubb

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

“The youth are the spoils of war.”

— Laini Taylor

“War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.”

— Evan Meekins

“War does not only kill men. Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.”

— Angelika Regossi

“War kills everybody, including the ones who live.”

— Hallgrímur Helgason

“All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“The cost of war is a lifelong legacy borne by children.”

— Chanrithy Him