“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony–Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.” – All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5” ― Erich Maria Remarque
“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.” -All Quiet On The Western Front, Chapter 12” ― Erich Maria Remarque
“How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“We came to realise – first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference – that intellect apparently wasn’t the most important thing…not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Yojimbo says:
Let the 75th Annual Hunger Games Begin! This year, the game arena will be located in ancient Persia! With both land and water areas for the tributes to battle, these games promise to be spectacular!
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11th November 2012 at 4:09 pm
fool on the hill says:
Old generals never die.
Only their privates.
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11th November 2012 at 6:56 pm
Stucky says:
“Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we’re getting killed for… so we can be sure after we’ve won your war that we’ve got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
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11th November 2012 at 7:29 pm
Stucky says:
“did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god i’m glad i’m dead because death is always better than dishonor? did they say i’m glad i died to make the world safe for democracy? did they say i like death better than losing liberty? did any of them ever say it’s good to think i got my guts blown out for the honor of my country? did any of them ever say look at me i’m dead but i died for decency and that’s better than being alive? did any of them ever say here i am i’ve been rotting for two years in a foreign grave but it’s wonderful to die for your native land? did any of them say hurray i died for womanhood and i’m happy see how i sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
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11th November 2012 at 7:30 pm
KaD says:
I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did … They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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11th November 2012 at 7:33 pm
Stucky says:
“Do we scream in the night when it touches our dreams? No. We don’t dream about it because we don’t think about it; we don’t think about it because we don’t care about it. We are much more interested in law and order, so that American streets may be made safe while we transform those of (Iraq) into flowing sewers of blood which we replenish each year by forcing our sons to choose between a prison cell here or a coffin there. ‘Every time I look at the flag, my eyes fill with tears.’ Mine too.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
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11th November 2012 at 7:33 pm
Eddie says:
I read Remarque in High School. Maybe that’s why I’ve never been pro-military. It made an impression on me.
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11th November 2012 at 9:56 pm
JJ3 says:
If the Indians had won, would the government still be having fun?
Mauling mother nature, creating superficial legislature?
Polluting our ponds?
Going deeper in debt issuing treasury bonds?
Playing policitical games, pointing their fingers and naming names…
While the real issues sit,
and the government governs us like shit.
-JJ3
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11th November 2012 at 4:27 pm
Bob says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DboMAghWcA&feature=player_detailpage
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11th November 2012 at 7:20 pm