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War Quotes by Sebastian Junger
- In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker…
- The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or…
- I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
- I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
- Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound…
- 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;…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
- War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov