Conscript Quotes

#1. The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

Du Fu

#2. A revolutionary army can sometimes win by enthusiasm, but a conscript army has got to win with weapons,

George Orwell

#3. When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. We feel ever obliged by everday charges and tasks. They conscript us more and more. We find world enough in a frame. Until at last we take our places at the wheel, or wall, or line, having somewhere forgotten that we can look up.

Chang-rae Lee

#5. When children's innocence is used as a tactic to suppress queer adults, readers need to resist, not children, but those who conscript children to fight their own ideological agendas.

Tison Pugh

#6. Are you sure you have enough sweetener in that? I could offer to conscript the rest of the cubes from the galley for you.

K.L. Tharp

#7. ...for my greatest skill has been to want but little.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

John Cornwell

#9. All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Nancy Springer

#10. I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!

Rod Stewart

#11. Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

Steve Israel

#12. If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

William Blake

#13. People are both more willing and less willing to talk to you when you're a writer.

Jesse Kellerman

#14. They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.

Eugene V. Debs