Soldier Killed Quotes

#1. It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.

Golda Meir

#3. No one can give you any answers. There aren't any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery.

Bill Hicks

#4. Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

Phyllis McGinley

#5. "Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

Matt Chandler

#6. He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by good if dull tactics than his own men by bad but exciting ones.

Terry Pratchett

#7. President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Andrew Young

#8. The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.

Yaroslav Trofimov

#9. After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his soul, said you could judge prayer worthwhile simply if you could act more decently, think more clearly afterward. As D.W. once told him, "Son, sometimes it's enough just to act less like a shithead.

Mary Doria Russell

#10. A nameless soldier dies without mourning," Kell said, "but a brother killed in battle leaves an immeasurable scar.

Ben Hale

#11. I want you to let go of all of your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that ever made you feel like you don't belong.

Lady Gaga

#12. Killing Japanese didn't bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn't worried particularly about how many people we killed in getting the job done ... . All war is immoral, and if you let it bother you, you're not a good soldier.

Ronald Schaffer

#13. The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep
Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life
Loses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free.

Randall Jarrell

#14. It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)

Robin McKinley

#15. The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Voltaire

#16. You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward.

Jimmy Chin

#17. They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor.

Tim O'Brien

#18. It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person was more likely to kill himself than to be killed by a terrorist, a soldier or a drug dealer. In

Yuval Noah Harari

#19. The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Jay Samit

#20. Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

Bill Maher

#21. All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

Orson Scott Card

#22. Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

Jami Attenberg

#23. Every one of them was armed, every one a trained soldier who had killed and would not hesitate to kill again.

Wilbur Smith

#24. And the air
I don't know how to describe it exactly
it had that strange cool spring feeling in it, that feeling as if you remember something wonderful but you're not quite sure what it is.

Andrew Klavan

#25. The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

Ted Rall

#26. I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did
guys who were killed.

Audie Murphy

#27. Remember that what gets talked about and how it gets talked about determines what will happen. Or won't happen. And that we succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time.

Susan Scott

#28. An American, a soldier of fortune by profession. Wherever there is trouble in the world the Dwights of all nations foregather. There are not very many of them, thirty or forty perhaps, and they are all supremely competent men because the others have been killed.

Nevil Shute