George Orwell

The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do.

George Orwell, “Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler” (March 1940), in The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell, Vol. 2, Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, eds. (1968).