Joseph Heller Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, War, Fighting

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

• It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Winning, Differences

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

• They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Drug, Can Do

• The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

  Joseph Heller

  Death, Suicide, Wisdom

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

• I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

  Joseph Heller

  Peace, War, Government

  1961 Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.

• For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Enough, Expensive

  Joseph Heller (2016). “Closing Time”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

• History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  Joseph Heller

  Children, War, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

• ¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

  Joseph Heller

  War, Winning, People

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

• After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Writing, Ideas

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

• But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  Joseph Heller

  Children, War, Parent

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

• Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Broke, Catch 22 Important

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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