From A Mathematician's Apology, by G.H. Hardy
It may also be urged ... that the equalization of risks which science was expected to bring would be in the long run salutary; that a civilian's life is not worth more than a soldier's, nor a woman's than a man's; that anything is better than the concentration of savagery on one particular class; and that, in short, the sooner war comes "all out" the better. -- Part 28, p. 142