War Sebastian Junger Quotes

#1. I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

Sebastian Junger

#2. Can we all pause a moment to appreciate the artistry of that sentence? "Sitting casually on the floor, a guard sat ... " That's freaking art right there! Someone nominate this thing for the Hugo Award already!

Jim C. Hines

#3. If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there.

Sebastian Junger

#5. If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Phillips Brooks

#6. Dropping into a thorn bush can lead to no end of grief.

Mark Lawrence

#7. Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

Sebastian Junger

#8. The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.

Sebastian Junger

#9. Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.

Joe Biden

#10. Truth is truth, even when told by a liar.

William Wallace

#11. No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

Sebastian Junger

#12. War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

Sebastian Junger

#13. People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

Amanda Beard

#14. U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.

C. Robert Kehler

#15. One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

Sebastian Junger

#16. If contemporary America doesn't develop ways to publicly confront the emotional consequences of war, those consequences will continue to burn a hole through the vets themselves. I

Sebastian Junger

#17. If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Sebastian Junger

#18. Much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)

Sebastian Junger

#19. If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

Richard Rorty

#20. I write to exist in a nonexistent space.

Molly

#21. Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

Sebastian Junger

#22. I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

Sebastian Junger

#23. It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldn't be fun.

Robert Penn

#24. I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

Sebastian Junger

#25. War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

Sebastian Junger

#26. Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

John Dryden

#27. The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

Sebastian Junger

#28. War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.

Sebastian Junger