Quote by Irvine Welsh

“way.  If you’re just a civilian, why did you”

— Diane Henders

“I joined the military because there is someone I have to protect.”

— Hiromu Arakawa

“Keep in mind that without the law, we’re not a military, just an armed gang that dresses alike.”

— Marko Kloos

“I was like, ‘Wow,’ but I got it. I had come out of a military culture, and you just have to make your objective…

— Ashlee Vance

“Isn't that why you want to shoot yourself? To make a protest against change?”

— Stephen Dobyns

“They could smile back and forth without speaking, like soldiers who had fought side by side. The”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“For it is not without cause that one needs the police and the army to earn one's living or force and injustice to continue…

— Albert Memmi

“I would join Combat or die trying... A fine choice of words. What had been meant as a melodramatic proclamation was now to be…

— Rachel E. Carter

“Military men would always overthrow one another, because they could, because they were all power drunk.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“All of a sudden, he began to laugh. Had I said something funny? Had he? How long had I been spacing out for, slowly…

— The Harvard Lampoon

“And I served as an officer in the army.” “Very impressive. I’ve been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.”

— Julie Anne Long

“I feel an army in my fist.”

— Anonymous