Conscripted Quotes

#1. I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss ...

Edward Hirsch

#2. Fought their duels on Greek territory, conscripted Greek men, requisitioned Greek crops and gold, levied twenty years' taxes in two, and left the cities destitute.

Will Durant

#3. My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

Jo Brand

#4. In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.

Tim O'Brien

#5. The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'

Dawn Johnsen

#6. I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

Gunter Grass

#7. They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.

John Paul Stevens

#8. Like all other modern people, the English are in process of being numbered, labelled, conscripted, 'coordinated'. But the pull of their impulses is in the other direction,

George Orwell

#9. The only shot, his great-nephew confirmed, was fired by a forty-three year old conscripted drunkard who tried to shoot the cock off a weathervane during one of the poor sot's more exuberant outings with the bottle.

William L. Domme

#10. I first saw 'West Side Story' on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it, bought the album, and memorised the whole thing.

Russ Tamblyn

#11. The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

Laurence Housman

#12. If vaccination can be conscripted into acts of war, it can still be instrumental in works of love.

Eula Biss

#13. A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent ... They are being conscripted.

John A. Logan

#14. They're Americans when they win races, and when they get conscripted into the army,' Dave said. 'But they're Negroes when they want to buy the house next door to yours.

Ken Follett

#15. We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.

Alan Harrington

#16. The alternative is to locate large deposits of specifically what we need, and extract it in bulk from the earth."
"That's mining," said the Drip. "There is a twenty-third century legend that youth was conscripted to work in mines. Anyhow, all young people were known as miners at one period.

Theodore Sturgeon

#17. I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

Steve Earle

#18. Today's problems are yesterday's mistakes coming back to bite you in the ass.

Lois Greiman

#19. This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

Suzanne Collins

#20. The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

Sakyong Mipham

#21. The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

Jon Meacham

#22. His life is like your life and my life and all the lives of all the people who are reading these words right now. It's a roiling stew of fear and need and desire and love and the hunger to be loved. And mostly, it's the latter.

Cheryl Strayed

#23. The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

Curtis Jackson

#24. Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#25. [On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

Erma Bombeck

#26. Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

Jack Higgins