“Whoever survives—his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.”
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), by Erich Maria Remarque
“Whoever survives—his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.”
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), by Erich Maria Remarque
“Kropp, on the other hand, is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of festival, with tickets & bands, like a bullfight. Then, in the arena, the ministers & generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing drawers & armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves.”
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“Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.”
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Stereotypes tell me I shouldn’t expect to hear this from someone who lives in Montana.
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