Quotes About Youth

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

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.

War is young men dying and old men talking

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

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

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars." (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.

A young body, a young heart, and endless courage. That last part is the most important. Don't let anyone tell you any differently. Why do you think we used to send so many kids your age off to war?

That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.

It's the young who will lead us to the future."Free Trader 4 - Battle for the Amazon

Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe