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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.