Prabhupada: Yes. The farm project... Even some hundreds of years, it was so nice. Even there was war, they would not attack the farmers. Rather, they would ask, "Where the other party has gone?" So they will say: "Oh, we have seen some soldiers going this way." That's all. They were not affected. That was the principle. Farmers were not attacked, just like at the present moment, the law is the civilians are not attacked. The military target is attacked. That is the law. But they do all nonsense. Even at the present moment civilians are not attacked. Just like Kuruksetra Battle. It was taken far away from the civilian inhabitation.


Hamsaduta: Some field.


Prabhupada: Yes. That is civilization. "Why these innocent civilians should be killed? Let us fight, military to military. That's all." That is honest fighting. We have to settle some things by fighting. So fighting may be, I mean to say, limited within the fighters, not with the civilians.


Ramesvara: In modern warfare it's...


Prabhupada: Why not? Yes. But they, they are so rascals, they throw bomb anywhere.


Tamala Krsna: Especially atom bomb.


Prabhupada: But one thing is that because civilians are also responsible for declaring war, because the parliament is the representation of the people...


Pusta Krsna: Karma.


Prabhupada: Therefore, now the war is between people to people, nation to nation. They support with men and money. So therefore they are also killed by nature's law.

(Morning Walk [World War III]
April 4, 1975; Mayapur)