John Edward Christopher Hill Quotes

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which ... develops patriotism and courage. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

We often fight wars with our young.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

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

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.