War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don’t want to make money that way. I don’t want blood money.

Turner contrasts the reality that conflict can boost certain businesses—especially news and media—with a moral refusal to treat human suffering as a revenue stream. By calling such profits “blood money,” he frames war-derived gains as ethically tainted, implying complicity when institutions benefit from violence. The quote also gestures toward a tension inherent in commercial journalism: war drives attention, ratings, and advertising, yet the act of covering war can feel uncomfortably close to monetizing tragedy. Turner’s phrasing suggests an aspiration to align business success with social good, or at least to acknowledge and resist incentives that reward catastrophe.