"At school nobody ever taught us how to……" — Erich Maria Remarque
"At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs."
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Erich Maria Remarque
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109 Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque has 109 quotes on this site.
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into…
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The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike…
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived…
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Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than…
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To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I…
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The war has ruined us for everything.
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I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like…
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with…
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More Bayonet Quotes
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The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.
— Alexander Suvorov
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It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
— George S. Patton
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Where the hell do you put the bayonet?
— Chesty Puller
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Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight…
— George S. Patton
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Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in…
— Félix J. Palma
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In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is…
— Benjamin Tucker
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers…
— Studs Terkel
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War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the…
— Edward Abbey
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Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the…
— Sam Houston
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