Quotes About Conscripts

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.

In the summer of 1863, a "Song of the Conscripts" was circulated by the thousands in New York and other cities. One stanza: We're coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more We leave our homes and firesides with bleeding hearts and sore Since poverty has been our crime, we bow to thy decree; We are the poor and have no wealth to purchase liberty.

Making war, even a war of resistance, has a certain authoritarian logic to it. War is about killing people and sending some people off to die so that others might live. It is, unfortunately, not mainly about killing the class enemy, but rather about killing the other oppressed people, often conscripts, who make up the enemies army.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.