“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican national convention (27 June 1944)
Context: Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
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Variant: Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
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Context: In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
There is a new-made grave today,
Built by never a spade nor pick,
Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
There lie many fighting men.
Dead in their youthful prime
Never to laugh nor love again
Nor taste the Summertime.
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
Strange Meeting (1918)
Context: "Strange friend," I said, "Here is no cause to mourn."
"None," said the other, "Save the undone years,
The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours,
Was my life also; I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world,
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,
But mocks the steady running of the hour,
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.
For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping something has been left,
Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
Now men will go content with what we spoiled.
Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled.
They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress,
None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
Courage was mine, and I had mystery;
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;
To miss the march of this retreating world
Into vain citadels that are not walled.
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
George S. McGovern (1922–2012) American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate
“Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, Planet of Exile (1966), Chapter 4 (The Tall Young Men)
“After wars peace, after peace, another war. Every day men are born and others die.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
All Men are Mortal (1946)