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War Quotes by Joseph Heller
- I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
- They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
- Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
- But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence…
- It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
- What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans…
- ¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us…
- For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
- After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that…
- History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it.…
- Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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