Philip Caputo Quotes

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• There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the…
• Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself…
• In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to…
• It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill…
• War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
• True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
• In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.
• I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.
• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its…

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