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"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."
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"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
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"That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians."
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"You want war??...Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If you disire for more... it sounds like you are cruel, so far I can understand it you are the bad guy, aren't you?"
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"Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go."
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"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."
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"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
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"At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong."
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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."
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"Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!"
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"Two hundred Romans, and no one's got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the hand grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. Frank looked at Percy with wide eyes. He mouthed: Can your sword do grenade form?Percy mouthed back, No. Shut up."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
Patience
"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."
God
"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."
Change
"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."
War
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
Experience
"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
Education
"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
Spirit
"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
History
"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."
Growth
"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
Existence
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