Accepting Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of…

— Heinlein Robert A

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

— Erwin Rommel

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between…

— Jody Williams

“Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and…

— Graham Greene

Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are…

— PJ Harvey

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the…

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood…

— Jody Williams

Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is…

— J. C. Ryle

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away…

— Timothy Noah

“I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.”

— Benjamin Kunkel

[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There…

— Leonard Read