" We do not argue that war is better than peace; we are not so stupid as that. But it is not peace when cruelty reigns, when stronger men steal from farmers and craftworkers, when the child can be enslaved or the old thrown out to starve, and no one lifts a hand. That is not peace: that is conquest, and evil. "

― Elizabeth Moon , The Deed of Paksenarrion (The Deed of Paksenarrion, #1-3)