All Sebastian Junger Quotes
- My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape… Cape
- No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering;… Battle
- No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages.… Actively
- War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a… Affected
- All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is. All
- 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, a… Die
- I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of… Attack
- If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and… Body
- If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns,… Base
- War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. Afghanistan
- The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements. Army
- War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144) Exciting
- 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 who… Almost Makes
- Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and… Absolutely
- The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s… Afghanistan
- During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how… Abandon
- The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to… Battle
- Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. Miss
- How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? Act
- Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't… Combat
- The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably… American