Peace Quotes by Sebastian Junger

8 Peace quotes by Sebastian Junger

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Sebastian Junger’s reporting background informs these eight brief notes on calm, delivering a grounded, realistic take on peace.

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War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

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“War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them.”

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War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

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The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

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Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die…

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“...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety.”

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I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is…

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“The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony of modern…

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“There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea.”

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“Billy's at 44 north, 56 west and heading straight into meteorological hell.”

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There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common.…

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People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

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I would never want to pass a law limiting freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we have to condone statements that undermine basic…

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I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's…

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Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy…

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“I look at the names on the mailboxes and the bells inside number 1940 and pick out a couple of women’s names and press…

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It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have…

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“The United States is so powerful that the only country capable of destroying her might be the United States herself, which means that the…

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The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of history, we…

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When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs,…

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