Joseph Bruchac Quotes

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy. How beautiful it is to kill and be killed.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is about dead people.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

When you go to war, it’s very important to kill the right people

I name the Assassins, who are to be cursed and fled. They sell themselves, are thirsty for blood, kill the innocent for a price and care nothing for either life or salvation.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

One must always shoot; always shoot, general.

We were taught to kill the enemy. They were evil. We were doing something good.

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.