Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.
Paul FussellTags: petty-mind-mocks chickenshit letter-of-law military-philosophy
When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said, "I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
Paul FussellChickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.
Paul FussellTags: war military pettiness chickenshit
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
Paul FussellTags: war soldiers war-crimes ptsd psychological-damage
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
Paul FussellTags: gender war aggression gender-stereotypes manhood
I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So I began to perceive that anything written was fiction to various degrees. The whole subject-- the difference between actuality and representation--was an interesting one. And that's what brought me to literature in the first place.
Paul FussellIrony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
Paul FussellTags: innocence hope irony wwi
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