‘You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look wonderful, so we’ll have a lot more of them. And they’ll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.’

So then I understood. It was war that made her so angry. She didn’t want her babies or anybody else’s babies killed in wars. And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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