"In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly……" — Philip Caputo
"In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front."
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9 Quotes by Philip Caputo
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There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war…
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Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and…
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In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which…
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It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point.…
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War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
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True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
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I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were…
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I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the…
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