Erich Hartmann Quotes

#1. Love thy neighbor
and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Mae West

#2. Every day kill just one, rather than today five, tomorrow ten ... that is enough for you. Then your nerves are calm and you can sleep good, you have your drink in the evening and the next morning you are fit again.

Erich Hartmann

#3. I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Arne Glimcher

#4. There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.

Nhat Hanh

#5. It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman ... Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.

Erich Hartmann

#6. You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

Marguerite Moreau

#7. Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.

Erich Hartmann

#8. If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

Erich Hartmann

#9. I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

Curtis Jackson

#10. You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.

Erich Hartmann

#11. No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

Murray Levin

#12. Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

Erich Hartmann

#14. In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'

Conan O'Brien

#15. In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

Erich Hartmann

#16. The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it

Paulo Coelho

#17. The most dangerous flower is one that grows on a grave. Everybody in its vicinity is dead. That's why I hand-picked it for my mother-in-law.

Jarod Kintz

#18. Things are only boring if you are boring.

Will Self

#19. I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy ... at minimum range ... it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver.

Erich Hartmann

#20. They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

David McCullough

#21. And because Scarlet loved pancakes ... That's what he would do. Make pancakes and flee.

Chelsea Fine