“I never turned children to war," Tool said."Only because you fought on the side of wealth,”
“You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.”
“Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.”
“I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.”
“War is sweet to those who have never fought.”
“Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.”