First place Quote by Rachel Maddow

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

— Bashar al-Assad

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

— Jodie Evans

“In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it…

— C.S. Harris

In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential…

— Robert Hormats

When people go at war they cheapen things.

— Michael Pitt

“Because deep down to the army a wounded soldier that can’t fight anymore is garbage. So we depend on civilians, and civilians don’t care…

— Lee Child

“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was the "war…

— Smedley D. Butler

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Oh, adjust yourself. You people have spent ten millennia playing at soldiers while becoming ever more dedicated civilians. We've spent the last thousand years…

— Iain M. Banks

“It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the…

— Tiffany Madison

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“benefit. It is immoral and sets dangerous precedent. But then again, war is inherently immoral. So we must simply decide how far we want…

— Pierce Brown