Soldier Quotes - Page 21

• Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].

  Alice Winocour

  Ptsd, Exposed, Felt

  "Alice Winocour’s Chaos and Order". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 10, 2016.

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• As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Integrity, People, Brave

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Kings, People

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• It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers to be using behind enemy lines against the Nazis because the Apache Indians... were able to fight off for decades both the Spaniards and the Mexicans and the U.S. Cavalry for years because of their - they were great guerrilla fighters. They were great resistance fighters. And one of their ways of winning battles was psychological battles.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Fighting, Winning, Years

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills or things like that, and you know, cut up the bodies and stuff. And then the other enemy soldiers would come across and find their comrades laying there, ripped apart, and they would be sickened by it and it would scare them.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Cutting, Ties, Enemy

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• But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they're not just any Jews. They're the American Jews. They're Jews with entitlement.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Heart, Talking, Ideas

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• I think the entire world knows, and North Korea knows, that if they used any weapons on our soldiers they would be obliterated. And it would be an overwhelming response.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Korea, Weapons

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.

  Rand Paul

  Real, War, Thinking

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• Many hunters and professional soldiers (especially snipers) have remarked how important it is during a stalk to not directly stare or even think hard about your quarry, else he will often sense it. While nobody can adequately explain it, this phenomenon has been noticed by so many people that its truth cannon be questioned

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Gun, Thinking, People

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• In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, School, Islands

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• At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country’s leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate.

  Jonathan S. Tobin

  Country, Israel, Decision

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• The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Courage, Brave Soldiers, Profession

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• Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It's easy to just steal an idea because it's very safe.

  Julie Delpy

  War, Years, Ideas

  "Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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• We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are on the side of our soldiers.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Brother, People, Support

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.

  Ian MacKaye

  Kings, Memories, Sunday

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing the shot from the confederate soldiers after the second battle of Bull Run. Amazing to think that he heard that and I studied with one of his last law clerks in college. And that encapsulates almost all of American history.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Mother, Uncles

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.

  Matthea Harvey

  India And Pakistan, Borders, Watches

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The media establishment senses that the boats are coming and it has taken it upon itself to stand on those beaches and do everything it can to shoot the soldiers on the boats. They know the beaches will be taken.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beach, Taken, Media

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

  Joni Ernst

  Military, Believe, Defense

  Source: hotair.com

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• Marie-Thérèse played a key role in shaping European politics.In addition, as the Duchesse d'Angoulême, her face-off with Napoleon's soldiers was certainly a testament to three generations of strong women.

  Susan Nagel

  Strong Women, Keys, Faces

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• It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

  George Packer

  Marine, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.

  George Packer

  War, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe across the world for a barrage of these things, then the political climate is revolutionized here. And maybe the [Donald] Trump speech will look like a precursor to a climate that we're all about to walk into.

  David Brooks

  Isis, Europe, Political

  "Shields and Brooks on the Hillary Clinton veepstakes, the latest Trump-Cruz dustup". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2016.

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