Quotes About Deserters

#1. But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

Pat Conroy

#2. During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives.

Wil S. Hylton

#3. The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

Jean Giraudoux

#4. The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

Paul Watson

#5. [Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor helmets.

Milan Kundera

#7. Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Now, waving flies from his face, he told the two deserters what they might expect.

Bernard Cornwell

#9. On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.

Heinrich Boll

#10. I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

Bill Ayers

#11. In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.

Laura Wade

#12. The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of
love and forgiveness into them.

Isabel Allende

#13. These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

#14. All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

Vladimir Nabokov

#15. No one ever dies but the moment you stop listening to the deepest thought in you you are dead

Sanjay Chitranshi

#16. The more I open up to him, the more I need him. The more I admit to myself that I need him, the most it hurts to know that I still don't exactly have him.

Colleen Hoover

#17. This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

Jon Bon Jovi

#18. No two moments are identical in a conscious being

Henri Bergson

#19. It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

Robert Mayer

#20. Checking his schedule, Brandon remembered he had planning period during his next block, before the last class ...
He glanced up to see Drake and Aaron flinging frog guts at each other and sighed. Some days he could just feel his brain dribbling out of his ears.

Abigail Roux

#21. While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.

Lionel Johnson

#22. The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.

Allen Hershkowitz

#23. The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Mark Twain