Seanan McGuire Quotes

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

It is a sacred duty to see that each of our dead comrades is escorted through the pearly gates by a large, a very large number of enemy dead. It is up to us now and here after to produce these escorts for the heroic slain.

You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.

I wouldn’t worry if there were a few casualties or a few martyrs behind the iron curtain…. You have got to have a few martyrs. Some people have to get killed.

My message was one of death for young men. How odd it is to applaud that.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Men, today we die a little.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.