Soldier Quotes - Page 23

• I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Opportunity, Yellow, Bird

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Cinema, Should, Good Soldiers

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Korea, Survival

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers.

  David Petraeus

  Enemy, Trying, Tasks

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• You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Country, Veteran

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.

  PJ Harvey

  War, People, Political

  Source: www.wfuv.org

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• I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from a guy who works for some sort of defense contractor, some lower-level job, served in the military. And he said, look, I served in the military with black and Latino soldiers. My supervisor is a young black woman who's smart as a whip, and I admire her, and we get along great.

  Steve Inskeep

  Jobs, Smart, Military

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

  Billy Crystal

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• [General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Mistake, Reading, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons, but in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there ; our forces, our police, our institutions don't exist there. How can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidence ?

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Police, Video

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That's the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don't throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don't have any clue yet.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Party, Rebel, Clue

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

  Bashar al-Assad

  Iran, Helping, Help Me

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.

  Martin Scorsese

  War, Korean, Remember

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Even the soldiers need a break sometimes.

  Prince

  Needs, Sometimes, Break

  "Song: "Musicology" ("Musicology")". April 20, 2004.

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• Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what was going on in Vietnam. It seemed to a lot of us like a catastrophe from the very beginning, inflicting immense and needless suffering on not only the American soldiers but on a lot of innocent peasants who were caught in a Cold War proxy battle - two million Vietnamese died during those years, and you woke up every morning knowing that that was going on.

  Robert Hass

  Morning, War, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Jobs

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers.

  Kofi Annan

  Troops, Way, Somalia

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• Will Ferrell and I are teaming up again on a film called Daddy's Home. In the movie I play a Special-Ops soldier who has just discovered that Will Ferrell's character is married to my ex-wife and is my children's stepfather. So, I have to come home and try to win them back and take him out.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Children, Home, Character

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Army, Men

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, War, Thinking

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Home, Army

  Source: ctheory.net

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• We know that for the last 300 or 400 years, the size of human bodies is growing. Now what happened is that we suddenly, in history, have the backward process. We have these great Greek athletes, we have ultra-powerful Roman soldiers. You look at the size of the Roman soldier who has to carry all this ammunition. You're talking about 300,000 Arnold Schwartzeneggers.

  Garry Kasparov

  Powerful, Athlete, Talking

  Source: www.timothytaylor.ca

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• Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

  Garry Kasparov

  Exercise, Talking, Able

  Interview With Timothy Taylor, timothytaylor.ca. 2001.

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• A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.

  John Hurt

  Real, Spy, Tailors

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the last half of the 18th century and early 19th century, articulated the rights of colonists, secured independence from Great Britain, and established new constitutional republics at both the national and state levels. This definition includes a cast of thousands who played their patriotic part at the local, state, and/or national levels. Among them were citizen soldiers, elected representatives, polemicists, and patriot preachers.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Father, Patriotic, Two

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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