Why is it a shame for me to cause
them to die and try to exterminate
them, tell me? You did not talk that
way when you used to come to my house
in Jeanne-d'Arc street. Ah! it is a
shame! You have not done as much,
with your cross of honor! I deserve
more merit than you, do you understand,
more than you, for I have killed more Prussians than you!
Tags: war romance feminism shame syphilis
It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve lost the knack of making sense. I speak gibberish to the civilized world, and it replies in kind.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: life writing war memories nonsense
You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces
Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces.
History, even, does not know what is meant.
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.
Sebastian FaulksTags: belief war death-and-dying
War is young men dying and old men talking
Franklin D. RooseveltHow could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.
Karl MarlantesTags: war madness mad defend attack switzerland karl-marlantes
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: history war revolution battle massacre civilians
Mellas knew that Hawke was letting him squirm. Then, without looking up, Hawke said, 'Look, Mellas, in the Navy or Air Force they give you a medal for what the Marines call just doing their job. In the Marines you only get a medal for being braver than just doing your job." Then he looked at Mellas. 'You get in fixes where medals are handed out because you were unlucky and had to fix things, or because you were stupid and had to fix things. Be carful what you're wishing for.
Karl MarlantesTags: war vietnam marines quotes-that-make-sense medal-of-honor
Women and children make you weak; get rid of them when you are in war.
M.F. MoonzajerCivil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor HugoTags: war
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