Murderers Are Punished Unless …

We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.—attributed to Albert Einstein

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — attributed to Voltaire