History Quotes / ChildSoldiers

-->-- '''Xavin''', "ComicBook/{{Runaways}}"

-->-- '''Xavin''', "ComicBook/Runaways"

->''You are asking a fourteen year old child to put his life on the line, going into combat against things that tear through divisions of crack troops.''
-->--'''Shinji''', ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''

-->--''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers''

-->''While other Mondstadt children her age are still playing with regular toys, Klee's favorite toys are... live explosives.''

-->''Well, Fitzroy -- you...you got a little cunning in ya, if nothing else. Dropped a couple grizzly traps 'round the lines up here. Idea was to...to bleed one of your couriers till he gave you up. 'Cept, of course, you're using kids now. Now I got this...tiny Injun boy, eyeballing me. Had to take his leg off. Damn thing's just...lying here between us. I sure wish he'd cry or something.''

->''“Gil, she’s no child. She’s just a weapon… A tool, for the purpose of war.”''
-->--'''Diethard Bougainvillea''', ''Anime/VioletEvergarden''

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->It is often said that there is nothing more frightening than a teenager with an automatic weapon; this is even truer when the teen is [[BrainwashedAndCrazy a brainwashed madman]].

-->-- ''Genocidal Organ'', by Project ITOH

-->-- ''FanFic/TamersForeverSeries''

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''

->They were teaching kids a few basic jutsu, drilling them in a few taijutsu kata, and throwing them out to die. Most historians agree (the Third Ninja World War) was the worst war out of all of them.

->You are asking a fourteen-year-old child to put his life on the line, going into combat against things that tear through divisions of crack troops.

"[[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters We're knights killing dragons. Farmers killing giants.]] [[FantasticRacism Our fight to be freed from these ruthless human rules... is a page in a story of history.]] We're making history, [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Blake]]."\\

-->-- ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9859244/1/Tensile-Strength-Of-The-Soul Tensile Strength Of The Soul]]''

->"You see [[AntiArmor that?]] See what a kid can do? That's your fault! That's your fucking fault! Next German you see with a weapon, you rake the dogshit out of 'em! I don't care if it's a baby with a butter knife in one hand and momma's titty in the other, YOU CHOP HIM UP!!!"

->"My comrades tied a rope around my waist and lowered me on top of Nazi tanks. I'd stuff [[MolotovCocktail Molotovs]] under turret and cannon, and they pulled me up again. Eight years old! They called me Tank Boy. I took a lot of Nazi tanks. A lot."

->Fight the good fight, soldier-boy.

->[[AcePilot Laughing through clouds]], his milk-teeth still unshed,\\

Childlike, with childish things now put away.

->We are talking about innocent children! You would really leave these children on the street knowing what you do about Juma? Dammit [[JerkAss Frank]], they will be used as cannon fodder! Or slaughtered in the soccer stadium for entertainment!

->I can't hold a glass of wine yet\\

Kill a man or kill his son

->Think you gangsta, popped a few rounds?\\

The graves get deeper the further we go down

->Some are eight or nine or ten\\

Who they are, they're smaller than the gun they load

->On Shiloh's dark and bloody ground,\\

And prayed before he died.

->To arms, oh citizens!\\

With their tainted blood!

->We too shall enlist\\

Of avenging or joining them\\

->Let no child be without a sword. We will all fight, for if we fail, we will certainly all die.

->Children, you call them? They can pull a trigger just as well as veterans, and they have the spirit of a bull [[HoldYourHippogriffs narthax]]. Call them children if you wish. I call them troops. Good troops.

->Do you know how they make [Space Marines], Threlnan? No, of course you don't. They find some barbaric planet where children fight before they can walk, and they hunt down the most bloodthirsty killers. They recruit them when they're twelve, thirteen, fourteen, with all that hate and that arrogance, just at the age when you think you're bulletproof and nothing can kill you. Then they keep them like that, give them [[{{BFG}} a gun]] and some [[PoweredArmor armour]], and point them at the nearest enemy. They're not soldiers, colonel, they're maniacs.

'''[[WarForFunAndProfit Sundowner]]''': And KidsAreCruel. [[HumansAreBastards All people are by nature]], they just lose touch with it as they get [[OlderAndWiser older]].

->We fight this battle not for ourselves, but for our children, and our children's children, which is why I'm forming a Children's Brigade.

->I consider their existence our greatest failure.

->Or maybe it was because of something that impressed me in ''Carton's Army of the Potomac:'' that the soldiers were all so young and innocent... Even though it was a deadly game, and the suffering and fear were terrible and real, it was still a game played by children...

->If it sounds fantastic to imagine German soldiers behaving so childishly in the days before the last stand of Hitler's Reich, consider their age: many of these "men" were indeed children, who laughed at the things children laughed at. They were adult only in their candidacy for death.

-->-- '''Sasuke Uchiha''', ''Fanfic/{{Echoes}}''

-->-- '''Colonel Marus Cullen''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->Do you know how they make [[[SuperSoldier Space Marines]]], Threlnan? No, of course you don't. They find some [[DeathWorld barbaric planet]] where children fight before they can walk, and they hunt down the most bloodthirsty killers. They recruit them when they're twelve, thirteen, fourteen, with all that hate and that arrogance, [[FearlessFool just at the age when you think you're bulletproof and nothing can kill you]]. Then they keep them like that, give them [[{{BFG}} a gun]] and some [[PoweredArmor armour]], and point them at the nearest enemy. They're not soldiers, colonel, they're maniacs.
-->-- '''Lord General Xarius''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

''[[WarForFunAndProfit Sundowner]]''': And KidsAreCruel. [[HumansAreBastards All people are by nature]], they just lose touch with it as they get [[OlderAndWiser older]].

->[[AcePilot Laughing through clouds]], his milk-teeth still unshed,
Cities and men he smote from overhead.
His deaths delivered, he returned to play

-->-- ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''

->You see [[AntiArmor that?]] See what a kid can do? That's your fault! That's your fucking fault! Next German you see with a weapon, you rake the dogshit out of 'em! I don't care if it's a baby with a butter knife in one hand and momma's titty in the other, YOU CHOP HIM UP!!!

->In the end, High Command decided they wanted their new troops to fight, not study, so they reduced the steps from ten to eight to three. Three steps, Nautica: "From thaw to war in under an hour." Because who cares whether or not a warborn knockoff with a three-minute life expectancy can quote Dominus Ambus or notate the Grand Celestial Melody? So long as he can assemble a path-blaster with his brand-new eyes closed, everyone's happy. That's sarcasm, by the way. I dabble.

->Nothing is scarier than a twelve-year-old with a Kalashnikov.
-->-- '''Nightcrawler''', ''ComicBook/XMen''

-->-- '''Oracel en-Vec''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[http://magiccards.info/sh/en/125.html "Youthful Knight"]]